Articles published in the May 2005 issue of R News
Editorial
Douglas Bates 1
Internationalization features of R 2.1.0
Brian D. Ripley 2
Packages and their management in R 2.1.0
Brian D. Ripley 8
Recent changes in grid graphics
Paul Murrell 12
Hoa: An R package bundle for higher order likelihood inference
Alessandra Brazzale 20
Fitting linear mixed models in R
Douglas Bates 27
Using R for statistical seismology
Ray Brownrigg and David Harte 31
Literate programming for creating and maintaining packages
Jonathan Rougier 35
CRAN task views
Achim Zeileis 39
Using control structures with Sweave
Damian Betebenner 40
The value of R for preclinical statisticians
Bill Pikounis and Andy Liaw 44
Recreational mathematics with R: Introducing the “magic” package
Robin K. S. Hankin 48
Programmer’s Niche: How do you spell that number?
John Fox 51
Programmer’s Niche
John Fox 51
Book Review of Julian J. Faraway: Linear Models with R
Thomas Yee 56
Changes in R
R Core Team 57
R Foundation News
Bettina Grün 57
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik 67
Events
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