The R Journal, Vol.2 Issue 2 is out

The second issue of the second volume of The R Journal is now available .

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Table of Contents

Editorial3

Contributed Research Articles

Solving Differential Equations in R
Karline Soetaert, Thomas Petzoldt and R. Woodrow Setzer
5
Source References
Duncan Murdoch
16
hglm: A Package for Fitting Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models
Lars Rönnegård, Xia Shen and Moudud Alam
20
dclone: Data Cloning in R
Péter Sólymos
29
stringr: modern, consistent string processing
Hadley Wickham
38
Bayesian Estimation of the GARCH(1,1) Model with Student-t Innovations
David Ardia and Lennart F. Hoogerheide
41
cudaBayesreg: Bayesian Computation in CUDA
Adelino Ferreira da Silva
48
binGroup: A Package for Group Testing
Christopher R. Bilder, Boan Zhang, Frank Schaarschmidt and Joshua M. Tebbs
56
The RecordLinkage Package: Detecting Errors in Data
Murat Sariyar and Andreas Borg
61
spikeslab: Prediction and Variable Selection Using Spike and Slab Regression
Hemant Ishwaran, Udaya B. Kogalur and J. Sunil Rao
68

From the Core

What’s New?74

News and Notes

useR! 201077
Forthcoming Events: useR! 201179
Changes in R81
Changes on CRAN90
News from the Bioconductor Project101
R Foundation News102

New edition of "R Companion to Applied Regression" – by John Fox and Sandy Weisberg

Just two hours ago, Professor John Fox has announced on the R-help mailing list of a new (second) edition to his book “An R and S Plus Companion to Applied Regression”, now title . “An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition”.

John Fox is (very) well known in the R community for many contributions to R, including the car package (which any one who is interested in performing SS type II and III repeated measures anova in R, is sure to come by), the Rcmdr pacakge (one of the two major GUI’s for R, the second one is Deducer), sem (for Structural Equation Models) and more.  These might explain why I think having him release a new edition for his book to be big news for the R community of users.

In this new edition, Professor Fox has teamed with Professor Sandy Weisberg, to refresh the original edition so to cover the development gained in the (nearly) 10 years since the first edition was written.

Here is what John Fox had to say:

Dear all,

Sandy Weisberg and I would like to announce the publication of the second
edition of An R Companion to Applied Regression (Sage, 2011).

As is immediately clear, the book now has two authors and S-PLUS is gone
from the title (and the book). The R Companion has also been thoroughly
rewritten, covering developments in the nearly 10 years since the first
edition was written and expanding coverage of topics such as R graphics and
R programming. As before, however, the R Companion provides a general
introduction to R in the context of applied regression analysis, broadly
construed. It is available from the publisher at (US) or (UK), and from Amazon (see here)

The book is augmented by a web site with data sets, appendices on a variety of topics, and more, and it associated with the car package on CRAN, which has recently undergone an overhaul.

Regards,
John and Sandy

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