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R News Volume 2/1

Friedrich Leisch 
We have just published the fourth 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 is the first special issue of R News, with an emphasis on
applying R in medical statistics.  It is special in many ways: first,
it took longer to prepare than we had originally antipicated (which
typically seems to happen for special issues).  Second, the newsletter
file is rather large as there are many exciting images---in fact, in
trying to keep the size reasonable, in some cases images are only
included at a lower resolution, with the ``real stuff'' available from
the respective authors' web pages.  And finally, articles are fewer
but longer: as many of the applications described are based on recent
advances in medical technology, we felt that extra space with
background information was warranted.

Contents:

Reading foreign files
Maximally selected rank statistics in R.
Quality control and early diagnostics for cDNA microarrays.
Bioconductor.
AnalyzeFMRI: An R package for the exploration and analysis of MRI and
  fMRI datasets. 
Using R for the analysis of DNA microarray data.
Changes in R
Changes on CRAN


which makes a total of 41 pages.

For the editorial board,
Fritz Leisch