Before I get too far into this I should note that any of the news items I post in this section are just that - news. Either I happened to run across them via some mailing list I was on, via some Usenet newsgroup, or via email from someone. I'd heard about them in the past month.
R is a system for statistical computation and graphics.
It consists of a language plus a run-time environment with graphics, a debugger, access to certain system functions, and the ability to run programs stored in script files. There have been lots of bug fixes since the last release, please check the ChangeLog for details. The most important change is probably that the windows version now is in sync with the unix version. There are over 1000 images and source archives available. DC20 is a user friendly package for the Kodak DC20 camera.