R News Volume 1/2

Articles published in the June 2001 issue of R News

Complete issue

Table of contents

Editorial
Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch 1

Contributed Research Articles

Date-time classes
Brian D. Ripley and Kurt Hornik 8

Installing R under Windows
Brian D. Ripley 11

geoR: A package for geostatistical analysis
Paulo J. Ribeiro, Jr. and Peter J. Diggle 14

Simulation and analysis of random fields
Martin Schlather 18

Mgcv: GAMs and generalized ridge regression for R
Simon N. Wood 20

What’s the point of “tensor”?
Jonathan Rougier 26

On multivariate t and Gauß probabilities in R
Torsten Hothorn, Frank Bretz and Alan Genz 27

News and Notes

Changes in R
R Core Team 2

Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch 5

Spatial Statistics in R
Brian D. Ripley 14

Programmer’s Niche
Bill Venables 29

Recent Events
Friedrich Leisch 32