Articles published in the June 2003 issue of R News
Editorial
Friedrich Leisch 1
Name space management for R
Luke Tierney 2
Converting packages to S4
Douglas Bates 6
The genetics package
Gregory R. Warnes 9
Variance inflation factors
Jürgen Groß 13
Building Microsoft Windows versions of R and R packages under Intel Linux
Jun Yan and A. J. Rossini 15
Analysing survey data in R
Thomas Lumley 17
Computational gains using RPVM on a Beowulf cluster
Brett Carson, Robert Murison and Ian A. Mason 21
R Help Desk: Getting help – R’s help facilities and manuals
Uwe Ligges 26
R Help Desk
R Development Core 26
Book Reviews
Kevin Wright, Andy Liaw and Friedrich Leisch 28
Changes in R 1.7.0
R Core Team 31
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch 36
Crossword
Barry Rowlingson 39
Recent Events
Torsten Hothorn 40