On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:32:23PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > My apologies for an off-topic post. I send this message here because > I know that Dirk Eddelbuettel reads this list, hopefully at an address > other than <edd at sonny.eddelbuettel.com> Sure do. -- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Niels Bohr