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One of the outcomes of useR! 2006 is that JSS is planning to publish a series of special volumes. They will be guest edited (I have guest editors already, although somewhat tentative in some cases). Each volume will have 5-10 issues (articles) of the usual JSS format. Psychometrics in R Political Methodology in R Econometrics in R Social Science Methodology in R Spectroscopy/Chemometrics in R

At www.jstatsoft.org we now have three special volumes Volume 22, Ecology and Ecological Modelling in R (Thomas Kneib and Thomas Petzoldt, eds.) Volume 20, Psychometrics in R (Jan de Leeuw and Patrick Mair, eds.) Volume 18, Spectroscopy and Chemometrics in R (Kate Mullen and Ivo van Stokkum, eds.) Coming soon -- Econometrics in R -- Political Methodology in R Gleam in my eye --

...Volume 19 regular Volume 20 Psychometrics in R Volume 21 regular Volume 22 Ecology and Ecological Modeling in R Volume 23 is being started, it is a regular volume, and may not fill up completely. Volume 24 is 'Statistical Modeling of Social Networks with "statnet"' -- it is not a Foometrics volume but can serve as another model for special volumes. Another Foometrics volume (Political Methodology in R, guest editors Altman and Jackman) will be out early 2008. If you have suggestions about special volumes of either type ("Foometrics with R" or "Statistical modeling o...