Articles published in the October 2008 issue of R News
Editorial
John Fox 1
An introduction to rggobi
Hadley Wickham, Michael Lawrence, Duncan Temple Lang and Deborah F. Swayne 3
Introducing the bipartite package: Analysing ecological networks
Carsten F. Dormann, Bernd Gruber and Jochen Fründ 8
The profileModel R package: Profiling objectives for models with linear predictors
Ioannis Kosmidis 12
An introduction to text mining in R
Ingo Feinerer 19
Animation: A package for statistical animations
Yihui Xie and Xiaoyue Cheng 23
The VGAM package
Thomas W. Yee 28
Comparing non-identical objects
Paul Murrell 40
Mvna: An R package for the Nelson-Aalen estimator in multistate models
A. Allignol, J. Beyersmann and M. Schumacher 48
Programmers’ Niche: The Y of R
Vince Carey 51
Changes in R Version 2.8.0
R Core Team 54
Changes on CRAN
Kurt Hornik 60
News from the Bioconductor Project
Bioconductor Team 69
useR! 2008
Uwe Ligges, Achim Zeileis, Claus Weihs, Gerd Kopp, Friedrich Leisch and Torsten Hothorn 71
Forthcoming Events: useR! 2009
David Causeur, Julie Josse, François Husson, Maela Kloareg, Sébastien Lê, Eric Matzner-Løber and Jérôme Pagès 73
Forthcoming Events: DSC 2009
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R Foundation News
Kurt Hornik 74