From cyg@sympatico.ca  Wed Dec 20 22:17:23 2000
From: cyg@sympatico.ca (Yves Gauvreau)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:17:23 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R Newsletter:  1st Call for Articles
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Message-ID: <NEBBJKDJHEFCOOLFFAKKCEBICAAA.cyg@sympatico.ca>

This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format
you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad
news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an
alternative to please every body?

Regards

Yves Gauvreau


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Friedrich Leisch
> Envoye : Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:15 PM
> A : r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Objet : [Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Kurt Hornik and I will start to publish a quarterly electronic
>
> 	``R Newsletter''
>
> beginning with January 2001 (if all goes well). The idea is to have a
> mixture of articles  describing
> 1) new features in R itself
> 2) contributed add-on packages
> 3) nice applications
> 4) more general statistical computing issues related to R
> 5) or ...
>
> OK, now comes my christmas wish to you: If you are the author of a
> package on CRAN and want to promote it a little bit, well, maybe you
> find some time during the holidays to write approx. 2 pages (A4 or
> letter) in LaTeX and send it to Kurt or me? The same applies if you
> simply have a nice application using R.  The idea is to have the
> newsletter not too technical, i.e., an article describing a package
> could shortly describe the statistical background and then demonstrate
> the usage on some typical data set. Of course graphics are more than
> welcome!
>
> The newsletter will be published as PDF file on CRAN, the final format
> will be created while we layout number one, hence any LaTeX file
> should be fine as contribution.
>
> Otherwise I wish everybody all the best for X-Mas and a happy new
> year!
>
> Best,
> Fritz Leisch
>
>
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[Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles
Yves Gauvreau