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Dear ASA: Lara Harmon and I have been thinking about ways to incorporate JASA into ASA Connect. About a year and a half ago, I switched from receiving JASA by mail to getting it online. But, I still miss getting it in the mail. There is something fun about skimming the back cover and opening it at random. And, sadly, I found no "fun" online equivalent. So, we thought we would highlight JASA in ASA Connect as an alternative to spark online discussion. As part of that, we are hoping to get short article synopses of recent JASA articles from ASA members posted to ASA Connect. So, I encourage all of you to join in and just have fun with this. I'll go first. ...
R is GNU GPL software from the R Project http://www.r-project.org The Bioconductor Project produces R packages for bioinformatics http://bioconductor.org Bioconductor versions are tied to specific R versions. The corresponding Bioconductor version that goes with your R version can be determined by typing the following at the R prompt: > tools:::.BioC_version_associated_with_R_version( ) [1] '2.11' For example, Bioconductor 2.11 is built for recent R versions 2.15.2 and 2.15.3. Binary distributions of R are easier to install, but they are not optimized for the specific CPU that you are running. Binary distributions are available for Mac OS ...