Dear R useRs, The new contributed packages 'ICS' and 'ICSNP' are available on CRAN. Descriptions: The 'ICS' package implements the 2 scatter matrix transformation to obtain an invariant coordinate system or independent components, depending on the underlying assumptions. The result of the transformation is an object of the S4 class ics which is provided by this package. Besides generic functions to create and work with ics objects the package contains also some scatter matrices and two tests for multinormality. The 'ICSNP' package contains tools for nonparametric multivariate analysis, including the estimation of location and shape as well as some tests for location and independence. Shape matrices from this package can be used as one of the scatter matrices needed in the package ICS whereas the tests of this package can be used for testing in the framework of invariant coordinates or independent components obtained from the package ICS. The parametric Hotelling?s T test serves as a reference for the nonparametric location tests. Suggestions, bug reports and other comments are very welcome. Best wishes, Klaus, Seija, Hannu and Dave -- Klaus Nordhausen Researcher Tampere School of Public Health FIN-33014 University of Tampere phone: +358 3 3551 7086 fax: +358 3 3551 6057 e-mail: Klaus.Nordhausen at uta.fi _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages