Special section: The Future of R

Facets of R , John M. Chambers

Collaborative Software Development Using R-Forge , Stefan Theußl and Achim Zeileis

Contributed Research Articles

Drawing Diagrams with R , Paul Murrell

The hwriter Package , Gregoire Pau and Wolfgang Huber

AdMit: Adaptive Mixtures of Student-t Distributions , David Ardia, Lennart F. Hoogerheide and Herman K. van Dijk

expert: Modeling Without Data Using Expert Opinion , Vincent Goulet, Michel Jacques and Mathieu Pigeon

mvtnorm: New Numerical Algorithm for Multivariate Normal Probabilities , Xuefei Mi, Tetsuhisa Miwa and Torsten Hothorn

EMD: A Package for Empirical Mode Decomposition and Hilbert Spectrum , Donghoh Kim and Hee-Seok Oh

Sample Size Estimation while Controlling False Discovery Rate for Microarray Experiments Using the ssize.fdr Package , Megan Orr and Peng Liu

Easier Parallel Computing in R with snowfall and sfCluster , Jochen Knaus, Christine Porzelius, Harald Binder and Guido Schwarzer

PMML: An Open Standard for Sharing Models , Alex Guazzelli, Michael Zeller, Wen-Ching Lin and Graham Williams

News and Notes

Forthcoming Events: Conference on Quantitative Social Science Research Using R

Forthcoming Events: DSC 2009

Forthcoming Events: useR! 2009

Conference Review: The 1st Chinese R Conference

Changes in R 2.9.0

Changes on CRAN

News from the Bioconductor Project

R Foundation News