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 R FAQ
 Frequently Asked Questions on R
-Version 1.1-25, 2000-11-14
+Version 1.1-32, 2000-11-30
 Kurt Hornik
 Table of Contents
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 .6 Are there Unix binaries for R?
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    The `bin/linux' directory of a CRAN site contains Debian 2.2/2.3
 packages for the i386 platform (now part of the Debian distribution and
-maintained by Doug Bates), Red Hat 6.x packages for the alpha, i386 and
+maintained by Doug Bates), Red Hat 6.x packages for the alpha and sparc
-sparc platforms (maintained by Naoki Takebayashi, Martyn Plummer, and Vin
+platforms and 6.x/7.x packages for the i386 platform (maintained by Naoki
-Everett, respectively), SuSE 5.3/6.4/7.0 i386 packages by Albrecht
+Takebayashi, Vin Everett, and Martyn Plummer, respectively), SuSE
-Gebhardt, Mandrake 7.1 i386 packages by Michele Alzetta, and Linuxppc 5.0
+.3/6.4/7.0 i386 packages by Albrecht Gebhardt, Mandrake 7.1 i386 packages
-RPMs by Alex Buerkle.
+by Michele Alzetta, and Linuxppc 5.0 RPMs by Alex Buerkle.
    The Debian packages can be accessed through APT, the Debian package
 maintenance tool.  Simply add the line
      deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian DISTRIBUTION main
    To "submit" to CRAN, simply upload to
 `ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming/' and send an email to
 <wwwadmin@cran.r-project.org>.
      *Note:*  It is very important that you indicate the copyright
-     (license) information (GPL, BSD, Artistic, ...) in your submission.
+     (license) information (GPL, BSD, Artistic, ...)  in your submission.
    Please always use the URL of the master site when referring to CRAN.
 R and S
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 *SASmixed*
      Data sets and sample linear mixed effects analyses corresponding to the
      examples in "SAS System for Mixed Models" by R. C. Littell, G. A.
      Milliken, W. W. Stroup and R. D. Wolfinger, 1996, SAS Institute.
+*XML*
+     Facilities for reading XML documents and DTDs.
 *acepack*
      ACE (Alternating Conditional Expectations) and AVAS (Additivity and
      VAriance Stabilization for regression) methods for selecting regression
      transformations.
      two-sample comparison of binary outcomes.
 *rpart*
      Recursive PARTitioning and regression trees.
+*scatterplot3d*
+     Plots a three dimensional (3D) point cloud perspectively.
 *sgeostat*
      An object-oriented framework for geostatistical modeling.
 *sm*
      Software linked to the book "Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data
    There is also a CRAN `src/contrib/Devel' directory which contains
 packages still "under development" or depending on features only present in
 the current development versions of R.  Volunteers are invited to give
 these a try, of course.  This area of CRAN currently contains
+*GRASS*
+     Interface between the GRASS geographical information system and R,
+     based on starting R from within the GRASS environment and chosen
+     LOCATION and MAPSET.  Wrapper and helper functions are provided for a
+     range of R functions to match the interface metadata structures.
 *HTML*
      Functions for exporting R objects as HTML tables.
-*Java*
-     An interface from R to Java to create and call Java objects and
-     methods.
 *RMySQL*
      An interface between R and the MySQL database system.
+*StatDataML*
+     Read and write StatDataML
 *cmprsk*
      Estimation, testing and regression modeling of subdistribution
      functions in competing risks.
 *cxx*
      Multivariate normal and t distributions.
 *netCDF*
      Read data from netCDF files.
-*syskern*
+*npConfRatio*
-     Functions for writing code that is OS and R/S independent.
+     Nonparametric confidence intervals for the ratios of medians.
-*tframe*
+*regexp*
-     Functions for writing code that is independent of the representation of
+     Simple regular expression interface.
-     time.
 *timeslab*
      Time series routines.
+   Directory `src/contrib/Omegahat' contains yet unreleased packages from
+the Omegahat Project for Statistical Computing (http://www.omegahat.org).
+Currently, there are
+*Java*
+     An interface from R to Java to create and call Java objects and
+     methods.
+*RSPerl*
+     An interface from R to an embedded, persistent Perl interpreter,
+     allowing one to call arbitrary Perl subroutines, classes and methods.
    Jim Lindsey <jlindsey@luc.ac.be> has written a collection of R packages
 for nonlinear regression and repeated measurements, consisting of *event*
 (event history procedures and models), *gnlm* (generalized nonlinear
 regression models), *growth* (multivariate normal and
 elliptically-contoured repeated measurements models), *repeated*
    (Unix only.)  The add-on packages on CRAN come as gzipped tar files
 named `PKG_VERSION.tar.gz', which may in fact be "bundles" containing more
 than one package.  Provided that `tar' and `gzip' are available on your
 system, type
-     $ R INSTALL /path/to/PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
+     $ R CMD INSTALL /path/to/PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
 at the shell prompt to install to the default R directory tree (the
 `library' subdirectory of `R_HOME').  To install to another tree (e.g.,
 your private one), use
-     $ R INSTALL -l LIB /path/to/PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
+     $ R CMD INSTALL -l LIB /path/to/PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
 where LIB gives the path to the library tree to install to.
    Even more conveniently, you can install and automatically update
 packages from within R if you have access to CRAN.  See the help page for
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    To remove the packages PKG_1, ..., PKG_N from the default library or the
 library LIB, do
-     $ R REMOVE PKG_1 ... PKG_N
+     $ R CMD REMOVE PKG_1 ... PKG_N
 or
-     $ R REMOVE -l LIB PKG_1 ... PKG_N
+     $ R CMD REMOVE -l LIB PKG_1 ... PKG_N
 respectively.
 .5 How can I create an R package?
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