Volume 1/2, December 2009

Refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links below. [Bibliography of refereed articles]

Editorial	3
Special section: The Future of R
Aspects of the Social Organization and Trajectory of the R Project John Fox	5
Contributed Research Articles
Party on! Carolin Strobl, Torsten Hothorn and Achim Zeileis	14
ConvergenceConcepts : an R Package to Investigate Various Modes of Convergence Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux and Benoit Liquet	18
asympTest: A Simple R Package for Classical Parametric Statistical Tests and Confidence Intervals in Large Samples J.-F. Coeurjolly, R. Drouilhet, P. Lafaye de Micheaux and J.-F. Robineau	26
copas: An R package for Fitting the Copas Selection Model J. Carpenter, G. Rücker and G. Schwarzer	31
Transitioning to R: Replicating SAS, Stata, and SUDAAN Analysis Techniques in Health Policy Data Anthony Damico	37
Rattle: A Data Mining GUI for R Graham J Williams	45
sos: Searching Help Pages of R Packages Spencer Graves, Sundar Dorai-Raj and Romain François	56
From the Core
The New R Help System Duncan Murdoch and Simon Urbanek	60
News and Notes
Conference Review: DSC 2009	66
Conference Review: WZUR(2.0) - The Second Meeting of Polish R Users	67
R Changes: 2.9.1-2.10.0 Patched	68
Changes on CRAN	80
News from the Bioconductor Project	95
R Foundation News	96

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