R-alpha: CRAN source/contrib

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CRAN/source/contrib currently contains:

acepack.tar.gz:
	ace (Alternating Conditional Expectations) and avas (Additivity
	and variance stabilization for regression) for selecting
	regression transformations.

	avas S original by Rob Tibshirani <tibs@utstat.toronto.edu>.
	R port by Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>.
	[1997/04/08]
	
bootstrap.tar.gz:
	Software (bootstrap, cross-validation, jackknife), data and
	errata for the book "An Introduction to the Bootstrap" by B.
	Efron and R.  Tibshirani, 1993, Chapman and Hall.

	S original by Rob Tibshirani <tibs@utstat.toronto.edu>.
	R port by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
	[1997/04/08]

ctest.tar.gz:
	A library of classical tests, including the Bartlett, Fisher,
	Kruskal-Wallis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, and Wilcoxon tests.
	
	Written by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
	[1997/04/08]

date.tar.gz:
	Functions for dealing with dates.  The most useful of them
	accepts a vector of input dates in any of the forms 8/30/53,
	30Aug53, 30 August 1953,..., August 30 53, or any mixture of
	these.

	S original by Terry Therneau <therneau@mayo.edu>.
	R port by Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>.
	[1997/04/08]

e1071.tar.gz:
	Miscellaneous functions used at the Department of Statistics at
	TU Wien (E1071).

	Compiled by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
	[1997/04/08]	

fracdiff.tar.gz:
	Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a
	fractionally differenced ARIMA(p,d,q) model (Haslett and
	Raftery, Applied Statistics, 1989).

	S original by Chris Fraley <fraley@stat.washington.edu>.
	R port by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
	[1997/04/08]

gee.tar.gz:
	An implementation of the Liang/Zeger generalized estimating
	equation approach to GLMs for dependent data.

	S original by Vincent Carey <carey@biostat.harvard.edu> and
	Aidan McDermott.
	R port by Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>.
	[1997/04/08]

jpn.tar.gz:
	A function to plot Japan's coast-line and prefecture
	boundaries.

	S original by Ritei Shibata <shibata@statlab.math.keio.ac.jp>.
	R port by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
	[1997/04/08]	

snns.tar.gz:
	An R interface to the Stuttgart Neural Networks Simulator
	(SNNS).

	Written by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
	[1997/04/08]

splines.tar.gz:
	Regression spline functions.

	S original by Doug Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>.
	R port by Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>.
	[1997/04/08]

survival4.tar.gz:
	Functions for survival analysis.  This ``port'' is not complete
	yet, because it requires a few changes to the R system itself
	rather than the add-on package, but most of the functionality is
	already available.

	Requires splines.

	S original by Terry Therneau <therneau@mayo.edu>.
	R port by Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>.
	[1997/04/08]
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