The latest (final) build of R 1.4.0 has been put in a temporary repository that soon will be moved to CRAN. You can find it in the usual two forms (full or base+recommended) full <- c( one archive only containing the base distribution and all the recommended packages ) The URL of the site is the following: http://159.149.74.117/~web/140/ Have nice holidays and a happy new year. Stefano M. Iacus