The R Journal

R News has been superseded by the new R Journal . These pages are being retained for historical and archival purposes.

R News

R News (ISSN 1609-3631) was the newsletter of the R project for statistical computing from 2001--2008. It featured short to medium length articles covering topics that might be of interest to users or developers of R, including

Changes in R: new features of the latest release
Changes on CRAN: new add-on packages, manuals, binary distributions, mirrors,...
Add-on packages: short introductions to or reviews of R extension packages
Programmer's Niche: nifty hints for programming in R (or S)
Hints for newcomers: Explaining sides of R that might not be so obvious from reading the manuals and FAQs.
Applications: Examples of analyzing data with R

The newsletter as a medium for communication intended to fill the gap between the R mailing lists and scientific journals: Compared with emails a newsletter is more persistent, one can cite articles in the newsletter and because the newsletter is edited it has better quality control. On the other hand, when compared to scientific journals, it is faster, less formal, and last but not least focused on R.

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[Table of Contents (all issues)]

Volume 8/2, October 2008:	PDF	(Errata updated 2008-11-25)
Volume 8/1, May 2008:	PDF	(Errata updated 2008-07-12)
Volume 7/3, December 2007:	PDF
Volume 7/2, October 2007:	PDF
Volume 7/1, April 2007:	PDF
Volume 6/5, December 2006:	PDF	(Errata updated 15/12/06)
Volume 6/4, October 2006:	PDF	(excerpt, p.43-45: Uwe Ligges "Accessing The Sources")
Volume 6/3, August 2006:	PDF	(Errata updated 14/09/06)
Volume 6/2, May 2006:	PDF
Volume 6/1, March 2006:	PDF
Volume 5/2, November 2005:	PDF	(Errata updated 19/12/05)
Volume 5/1, May 2005:	PDF
Volume 4/2, September 2004:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 4/1, June 2004:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 3/3, December 2003:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 3/2, October 2003:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 3/1, June 2003:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 2/3, December 2002:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 2/2, June 2002:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 2/1, March 2002:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 1/3, September 2001:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 1/2, June 2001:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
Volume 1/1, January 2001:	PDF,	Gzipped Postscript
BibTeX file of all issues:		Rnews.bib