The ‘Editorial’ article from the 2012-2 issue.
Welcome to volume 4, issue 2 of The R Journal.
Thomson Reuters has informed us that The R Journal has been accepted for listing in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE), including the Web of Science, and the ISI Alerting Service, starting with volume 1, issue 1 (May 2009). This complements the current listings by EBSCO and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and completes a process started by Peter Dalgaard in 2010.
Since The R Journal publishes two issues per year, the delay between acceptance and publication can sometimes be long. In July, we started putting accepted articles online, so that they are immediately accessible. If you want to see a preview of some of the articles in the next issue, go to the “Accepted Articles” page on the R Journal Web site.
A minor formatting change in this issue is the inclusion of back-links in the bibliography. Citations in The R Journal are hyper-links that will take you to the corresponding entry in the bibliography. The back-links now enable you to go back to the referring page.
The Contributed Research Articles section of this issue opens with a trio of papers by Paul Murrell, explaining advanced graphics features of R. We then have two papers on multilevel models: Il Do Ha, Maengseok Noh, and Youngjo Lee present the frailtyHL package for fitting survival models, and Rense Nieuwenhuis, Manfred te Grotenhuis, and Ben Pelzer present the influence.ME package for diagnostics in multilevel models. We also have two papers on flexible and robust regression: Zhenghua Nie and Jeffrey Racine discuss nonparametric regression splines with the crs package, while John Kloke and Joseph McKean discuss rank-based regression for linear models with Rfit. Finally, Kayvan Sadeghi and Giovanni Marchetti show how the ggm package can be used to examine the statistical properties of mixed graphical models.
The end of the year also brings changes to the editorial board. Heather Turner is leaving the board after four years. Heather has been on the board since the first issue of R News and, in addition to being an indefatigable editor, is responsible for much of the computational infrastructure of the journal. Another departure is Bill Venables, who has been editor of Programmer’s Niche since the very first issue of R News – the predecessor of The R Journal – in 2001. The last paper handled by Bill is a survey of naming conventions in R by Rasmus Bååth. We welcome Bettina Grün, who will join the editorial board in 2013. I shall be stepping down as Editor-in-Chief and will be leaving this task in the capable hands of Hadley Wickham.
frailtyHL, influence.ME, crs, Rfit, ggm
GraphicalModels, MixedModels, Optimization, Survival
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@article{RJ-2012-2-editorial,
author = {Plummer, Martyn},
title = {Editorial},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2012},
note = {https://rjournal.github.io/},
volume = {4},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {3-3}
}