r-help readers may be interested in our week-long summer school 'Introduction to R'. Further details including links to the course materials from last year and the application form are at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/summerschool/si/sgdp/course2/ The course is presented by the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London (UK). Because the emphasis is on fundamentals, the course may be of interest to people from diverse fields. There are practical sessions paired with each lecture. Leo Schalkwyk -- output of sessionInfo(): R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) -- Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org.