Hmisc 1.0 Available

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

After taking much longer than I had hoped, the Hmisc library version 1.0 is now available for Linux/Unix/Windows.  The web page for Hmisc is
http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Hmisc.html from which you can download the ready-to-install package.  See  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/help/Hmisc/html/Overview.html
for an overview of the library.  R users will be particularly interested in the semi-advanced LaTeX table-making functions by Heiberger and Harrell, and in sas.get, summary.formula (for moderate-level table making and graphical summaries), summarize, and extensions to Lattice graphics that allow for error bars, bands, filled bands, and automatic legend drawing.  There are many utility functions, such as labcurve for labeling curves where they are most separated or for drawing legends in the most empty region of a plot.  There are many high-level and some low-level graphics functions and some sample size/power functions.

The Design library will not be far behind.  For both libraries, the last things to work will be the examples, as my help files currently contain much example code and its printed output that will not execute.

Please send error reports directly to me, with simple examples causing failure if possible.

I wish to thank several people who, besides the helpful group of
R-core members, assisted in porting the Hmisc library to R:

Xiao Gang Fan <xiao.gang.fan1 at libertysurf.fr> kindly creates Windows
distributions of the library from my Linux/Unix version. 

Patrick Connolly <P.Connolly at hortresearch.co.nz> wrote an R version of
the print.char.matrix function that allows the summary.formula
function to print boxed tables.  Patrick's function will be of general
interest to many users [in S-Plus, print.char.matrix is used to print
the output from crosstabs].

Paul Murrell <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote the grid package and
Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan at stat.wisc.edu> wrote the lattice package.
Paul and Deepayan displayed amazing patience in answering many of my
questions, and they made imrovements in their packages to allow me to
better use them in Hmisc.

Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> provided major fixes to sas.get for R for
POSIX date, time, and date/time variables and for use of scan.

Peter Malewski <malewski.peter at mh-hannover.de> and Tom Short
<TShort at epri-peac.com> provided information about several errors in a
pre-release of Hmisc.

Thanks to all developers and contributors to R.

Sincerely,

Frank Harrell
-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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