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R News has been superseded by the new R Journal . These pages are being retained for historical and archival purposes. (ISSN 1609-3631) was the newsletter of the
Download the files into a directory, run pdflatex a couple of times on RJwrap.tex to produce a file RJwrap.pdf, then read RJwrap.pdf.
The R Journal
R News is about to be superseded by the new R Journal. We will be putting up a new home page for the R Journal soon.
- Editor-in-Chief:
- Vincent Carey
- Channing Laboratory
- Harvard Medical School
- 181 Longwood Avenue
- Boston MA 02115
- USA
Submissions to the R Journal should be sent to its editor-in-chief, Vincent Carey, stvjc@channing.harvard.edu
- Editorial Board:
- Peter Dalgaard, John Fox, and Heather Turner
- Editor Programmer's Niche:
- Bill Venables
- Editor Help Desk:
- Uwe Ligges
- Email of editors and editorial board:
- firstname.lastname@r-project.org
- ISSN number:
- ISSN xxxx-xxxx
The following files provide a template for preparing an article for submission to the R Journal:
was the newsletter of the for statistical computing from 2001--2008. It featured short to medium length articles covering topics that might be of interest to users or developers of R, including The newsletter as a medium for communication intended to fill the gap between the R mailing lists and scientific journals: Compared with emails a newsletter is more persistent, one can cite articles in the newsletter and because the newsletter is edited it has better quality control. On the other hand, when compared to scientific journals, it is faster, less formal, and last but not least focused on R.
- LaTeX style file: RJournal.sty.
- fake Master LaTeX file: RJwrap.tex.
- article template: RJtempl.tex.
Editorial board (2008)
Submissions to regular columns (programmer's niche, help desk) were sent to the respective column editor, all other submissions to the Editor-in-Chief or a member of the editorial board.A short article in described how to write articles for R News.
The following files provided a template for preparing an article for submission to R News:
Download the files into a directory, run pdflatex a couple of times on wrapper.tex to produce a file wrapper.pdf, then read wrapper.pdf.Authors were encouraged to read the documentation for the R News style file. Download the documented style file,
(Errata updated 2008-11-25)
Volume 8/2, October 2008:
Volume 8/2, November 2008: