Hi The December 2006 issue of R News, a special issue on Bioinformatics, is now available on CRAN under the Documentation/Newsletter link. Paul (on behalf of the R News Editorial Board) -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/