Articles published in the October 2006 issue of R News
Editorial
Paul Murrell 1
Sweave and the open document format – the odfWeave package
Max Kuhn 2
Plotrix
Jim Lemon 8
Rpanel: Making graphs move with tcltk
Adrian Bowman, Ewan Crawford and Richard Bowman 12
R’s role in the climate change debate.
Matthew Pocernich 17
Interacting with data using the filehash package
Roger D. Peng 19
Special functions in R: Introducing the gsl package
Robin K. S. Hankin 24
A short introduction to the SIMEX and MCSIMEX
Wolfgang Lederer and Helmut Küchenhoff 26
Parametric links for binary response
Roger Koenker 32
A new package for the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution
Víctor Leiva, Hugo Hernández and Marco Riquelme 35
Review of Fionn Murtagh’s book:
correspondence analysis and data coding with Java and R
Susan Holmes 41
R Help Desk: Accessing the sources
Uwe Ligges 43
useR! 2006, The Second R User Conference
Balasubramanian Narasimhan 45
Changes in R
R Core Team 46
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik 55
News from the Bioconductor Project
Seth Falcon 63
R Foundation News
Kurt Hornik 63