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From: <Saved by Windows Internet Explorer 7>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:55:43 +0100

Having a dynamic ever-changing software has
advantages and disadvantages. There are a few changes.

1.  Accessing data from files and websites no
longer requires // where / previously was. So

rd <-
read.table("http://www.fiu.edu/~dwright/jurstat/ex1rd.dat",header=T)

works.

When I get time I will submit all this as a
package for R which will make everything easier to access.

2.  In lmer, the only method for generalized
models is now Laplace so method was removed from this function. It will give a
warning. Future versions of lme4 may include other methods, so presumably this
option might come back into play.

3.  The foreign package, when reading SPSS,
no longer puts all the variable names in capitals.

If you find anything else that doesn't seem to
work, email
me.