I have just upgraded from R 1.7.3 to R 1.9.0 and have found that the predict function no longer works for rpart: > predict(hmmm,sim3[1:10,]) Error in predict.rpart(hmmm, sim3[1:10, ]) : couldn't find function "pred.rpart" I have re-installed the rpart package to no avail. Any ideas? Giles Hooker