The R Journal has published its first issue, now available online. Billed as "a peer-reviewed, open-access publication of the R Foundation for Statistical Computing", The R Journal takes over from R News as the venue for in-depth articles about all things R.
This first issue begins with an introduction to the new journal from Editor-in-Chief Vince Carey. Next, an invited paper from John Chambers, called "Facets of R", traces the history of the various implementations of the S language he pioneered, that ultimately resulted in the "rich but sometimes messy" R we have today. This is followed by a review of the purpose and use of R-Forge, an on-line collaborative environment for developing extensions to R, by Stefan Theußl and Achim Zeileis.
Other articles cover: how to create Visio-style diagrams in R programs; generating Web-pages in HTML containing R output; probability model elicitation; integration of the multivariate normal density; Hilbert spectrum analysis; microarray study design; parallel computing support; and sharing predictive models with PMML (the predictive modeling markup language).
The R Journal: Current Issue. (Is there a permanent link to the index of the May 2009 issue?)
I'm wondering if there is an RSS feed for the journal?
Posted by: apeescape | June 05, 2009 at 14:27
I don't believe there is, although it would be nice to have. Permanent links to individual articles in the Journal would be nice, too.
Posted by: David Smith | June 08, 2009 at 13:51