R News Volume 2/2

[Kurt Hornik]

We have just published the 2002/2 issue of R News on

	http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews

where you can download the newsletter as PDF or Postscript file.  It
will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within a day or two.

This issue focuses on the R 1.5.0 release, with key innovations in the
standard add-on package 'ts' and the two new recommended packages 'grid'
and 'lattice'.  There is much more exciting information, including news
on R and spatial statistics, distributed computing, and bioinformatics.

Contents:

Time Series in R 1.5.0
Naive Time Series Forecasting Methods
Rmpi: Parallel Statistical Computing in R
The grid Graphics Package
Lattice
Programmer's Niche
geoRglm: A Package for Generalised Linear Spatial Models
Querying PubMed
evd: Extreme Value Distributions
ipred: Improved Predictors
Changes in R
Changes on CRAN
Upcoming Events

which makes a total of 44 pages.

For the editorial board,
Kurt Hornik

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