Table of Contents
| Editorial | 3 |
Contributed Research Articles |
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| What’s in a Name? Paul Murrell | 5 |
| It’s Not What You Draw,It’s What You Don’t Draw Paul Murrell | 13 |
| Debugging grid Graphics Paul Murrell and Velvet Ly | 19 |
| frailtyHL: A Package for Fitting Frailty Models with H-likelihood Il Do Ha, Maengseok Noh and Youngjo Lee | 28 |
| influence.ME: Tools for Detecting Influential Data in Mixed Effects Models Rense Nieuwenhuis, Manfred te Grotenhuis, and Ben Pelzer | 38 |
| The crs Package: Nonparametric Regression Splines for Continuous and Categorical Predictors Zhenghua Nie and Jeffrey S Racine | 48 |
| Rfit: Rank-based Estimation for Linear Models John D. Kloke and Joseph W. McKean | 57 |
| Graphical Markov Models with Mixed Graphs in R Kayvan Sadeghi and Giovanni M. Marchetti | 65 |
Programmer’s Niche |
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| The State of Naming Conventions in R Rasmus Bååth | 74 |
News and Notes |
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| Changes in R | 76 |
| Changes on CRAN | 80 |
| News from the Bioconductor Project | 101 |
| R Foundation News | 102 |