Articles published in the December 2007 issue of R News
Editorial
Torsten Hothorn 1
SpherWave: An R package for analyzing scattered spherical data by spherical wavelets
Hee-Seok Oh and Donghoh Kim 2
Diving behaviour analysis in R
Sebastián P. Luque 8
Very large numbers in R: Introducing package Brobdingnag
Robin K. S. Hankin 15
Applied bayesian non- and semi-parametric inference using DPpackage
Alejandro Jara 17
An introduction to gWidgets
John Verzani 26
Financial journalism with R
Bill Alpert 34
Need a hint?
Sanford Weisberg and Hadley Wickham 36
Psychometrics task view
Patrick Mair and Reinhold Hatzinger 38
Meta: An R package for meta-analysis
Guido Schwarzer 40
Extending the R Commander by “plug-in” packages
John Fox 46
Improvements to the multiple testing package multtest
Sandra L. Taylor, Duncan Temple Lang and Katherine S. Pollard 52
Changes in R 2.6.1
R Core Team 56
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik 57