Welcome to the first regular issue of R News for 2006. This is a bumper issue, with a thirteen contributed articles. Many thanks to the contributors and reviewers for all of the enthusiasm and effort that they put into these articles. This issue begins with some “methodological” papers. Peter Ruckdeschel, Matthias Kohl, Thomas Stabla, and Florian Camphausen introduce their distr package, which ...

Welcome to the first regular issue of R News for 2006. This is a bumper issue, with a thirteen contributed articles. Many thanks to the contributors and reviewers for all of the enthusiasm and effort that they put into these articles. This issue begins with some “methodological” papers. Peter Ruckdeschel, Matthias Kohl, Thomas Stabla, and Florian Camphausen introduce their distr package, which ...

Dear reader, in the last issue we looked at economic anthropology, and the current issue contains a comment on this by the anthropologist Chris Hann. The theme of the issue is economics. In our leading article, sociologists and economists look closer at economics. One conclusion, after having looked at contemporary economics, is that economists are getting closer to sociology. Rainer Diaz-Bone ...

The occurrence of heavy cyanobacterial blooms in eutrophic freshwater has been a worldwide problem (Carmichael 1992). Cyanobacteria are a nuisance in inland water bodies mainly because of bloom formation and toxin production (Chorus and Bartram 1999). Microcystins (MCs), which are secondary metabolites and are produced by some cyanobacteria (Carmichael 1992), are health hazard to livestock, wil...