Articles published in the October 2003 issue of R News
Editorial
Friedrich Leisch 1
R Help Desk: An introduction to using R’s base graphics
Marc Schwartz 2
Integrating grid graphics output with base graphics output
Paul Murrell 7
A new package for the general error distribution
Angelo Mineo 13
Web-based microarray analysis using Bioconductor
Colin A. Smith 17
Sweave, part II: Package vignettes
Friedrich Leisch 21
R Help Desk
Marc Schwartz 2
R Foundation News
Bettina Grün and Friedrich Leisch 25
Recent Events
Günther Sawitzki, Friedrich Leisch, Balasubramanian Narasimhan and Claus Dethlefsen 26
Book Reviews
Bret Larget 28
Changes in R 1.8.0
R Core Team 29
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch 35
Crossword Solution
Barry Rowlingson 38
Correction to “Building Microsoft Windows Versions of R and R packages under Intel Linux”
Jun Yan and A.J. Rossini 39