littler 0.0.8
I just wrapped up version 0.0.8 of r (pronounced littler), put it here and sent it to Debian's incoming queue.

This version has a few small changes and fixes over 0.0.7. Most notably is that all of R's environment variables are now set for r as well (at compile time). This permits it to call JGR, for example. Other than that, we made the build process more robust, extended or clarified some of the documentation and added two more example scripts.

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Boston bound
This just in this morning:

Dear Dirk Eddelbuettel,

This is to notify you that your entry into the 111th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 16, 2007 has been accepted, provided that the information you submitted is accurate.

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Yay! This was using the time from Sunburst in June but given Sunday's time I even get to run in 2008 too.

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