Hi all, We've just had a paper accepted for publication in Nature. We used R for 95% of our analyses (one of my co-authors sneaked in some GenStat when I wasn't looking.). The preprint is available from the Nature web site, in the open peer-review trial section. I searched Nature for previous references to "R Development Core Team", and I received no hits. So I tentatively conclude that our paper is the first Nature paper to cite R. A great many thanks to the R Development Core Team for R, and Prof. Bates for lmer. Cheers, Simon. (I'm off to the pub to celebrate.)
Simon Blomberg, B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D, M.App.Stat. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 7800 email: Simon.Blomberg_at_anu.edu.au F: +61 2 6125 0757 CRICOS Provider # 00120C The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey.