[BioC] Welcome

[Robert Gentleman]

Howdy folks,
  Welcome to the new bioconductor email list (mainly thanks to
  Martin).
  I would like to use this list in pretty much the same way that the
  R-core mailing list is used. A way for us to communicate with each
  other about developments and issues related to the Bioconductor
  project.

  A first request:
    Please send Jianhua Zhang (jzhang@jimmy.harvard.edu) a URL for
    your personal (professional) web page. He will be working on
    fixing up our web page. It will be at www.bioconductor.org
    shortly.

  Second:
     We are pretty close to having Biobase, annotate, hdf5 and genefilter in
     good enough condition for a beta-release. Anyone with other
     libraries that they want included let me know (and make sure that
     they pass CMD check without warnings).

     Fritz has developed some code for doing noweb style weaving and
     tangling that looks like it may provide an answer to running and
     testing the vignettes (or recipes) that need to be provided in 
     inst/docs/xxx.tex. Once we can do this I think we should release
     in beta form.

   Third:
      Duncan Murdoch has built R1.4 for windows and uploaded it to:
        http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel/
      this means we should be able to build and test all of our
      libraries for windows. (This will probably have to move so don't
      spread it around too widely -- they have a little server).

      I have no ideas about a mac port yet but that should come along
      in time.

  Otherwise, welcome aboard and let's get some software out there
  where people can use it.

      Robert
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