R News Volume 3/3

Articles published in the December 2003 issue of R News

Complete issue

Table of contents

Editorial
Friedrich Leisch 1

Contributed Research Articles

Dimensional reduction for data mapping
Jonathan Edwards and Paul Oman 2

R as a simulation platform in ecological modelling
Thomas Petzoldt 8

Using R for estimating longitudinal student achievement models
J. R. Lockwood, Harold Doran and Daniel F. McCaffrey 17

lmeSplines
Rod Ball 24

Debugging without (too many) tears
Mark Bravington 29

The R2HTML package
Eric Lecoutre 33

R Help Desk: Package management
Uwe Ligges 37

Fitting dose-response curves from bioassays and toxicity testing
Johannes Ranke 7

News and Notes

R Help Desk
Uwe Ligges 37

Programmer’s Niche
Thomas Lumley 40

Recent Events
Krisztina Filep 41

Upcoming Events
R core team mem- bers: 42

Changes in R 1.8.1
R Core Team 43

Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch 43

R Foundation News
Bettina Grün 45