The R Journal, Volume 5/1, June 2013

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Table of contents

Editorial
Hadley Wickham 4

Contributed Research Articles

RTextTools: A Supervised Learning Package for Text Classification
Timothy P. Jurka, Loren Collingwood, Amber E. Boydstun, Emiliano Grossman and Wouter van Atteveldt 6

Generalized Simulated Annealing for Global Optimization: The GenSA Package
Yang Xiang, Sylvain Gubian, Brian Suomela and Julia Hoeng 13

Multiple Factor Analysis for Contingency Tables in the FactoMineR Package
Belchin Kostov, Mónica Bécue-Bertaut and François Husson 29

Hypothesis Tests for Multivariate Linear Models Using the car Package
John Fox, Michael Friendly and Sanford Weisberg 39

osmar: OpenStreetMap and R
Manuel J. A. Eugster and Thomas Schlesinger 53

ftsa: An R Package for Analyzing Functional Time Series
Han Lin Shang 64

Statistical Software from a Blind Person's Perspective
A. Jonathan R. Godfrey 73

PIN: Measuring Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets with R
Paolo Zagaglia 80

QCA: A Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Alrik Thiem and Adrian Duşa 87

An Introduction to the EcoTroph R Package: Analyzing Aquatic Ecosystem Trophic Networks
Mathieu Colléter, Jérôme Guitton and Didier Gascuel 98

stellaR: A Package to Manage Stellar Evolution Tracks and Isochrones
Matteo Dell’Omodarme and Giada Valle 108

Let Graphics Tell the Story - Datasets in R
Antony Unwin, Heike Hofmann and Dianne Cook 117

Estimating Spatial Probit Models in R
Stefan Wilhelm and Miguel Godinho de Matos 130

ggmap: Spatial Visualization with ggplot2
David Kahle and Hadley Wickham 144

mpoly: Multivariate Polynomials in R
David Kahle 162

beadarrayFilter: An R Package to Filter Beads
Anyiawung Chiara Forcheh, Geert Verbeke, Adetayo Kasim, Dan Lin, Ziv Shkedy, Willem Talloen, Hinrich W.H. Göhlmann and Lieven Clement 171

Fast Pure R Implementation of GEE: Application of the Matrix Package
Lee S. McDaniel, Nicholas C. Henderson and Paul J. Rathouz 181

RcmdrPlugin.temis, a Graphical Integrated Text Mining Solution in R
Milan Bouchet-Valat and Gilles Bastin 188

Possible Directions for Improving Dependency Versioning in R
Jeroen Ooms 197

Translating Probability Density Functions: From R to BUGS and Back Again
David S. LeBauer, Michael C. Dietze and Benjamin M. Bolker 207

News and Notes

Conference Review: The 6th Chinese R Conference
Jing Leng and Jingjing Guan 210

Conference Report: R/Finance 2013
Joshua Ulrich 212

The R User Conference 2013
UseR 2013 Organising Committee 215

News from the Bioconductor Project
Bioconductor Team 218

R Foundation News
Kurt Hornik 220

Changes in R
The R Core Team 221

Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik and Achim Zeileis 239