Although R is still predominantly ap-plied for statistical analysis and graphical repre-sentation, it is rapidly becoming more suitablefor mathematical computing. One of the fieldswhere considerable progress has been made re-cently is the solution of differential equations.Here we give a brief overview of differentialequations that can now be solved by R.

The ever-increasing of spatial datasets and the widely application of the complex computation have motivated the emergence of distributed algorithms to process spatial operations efficiently. The R-tree index is broadly used by researches as a distributed spatial structure for indexing and retrieval of spatial objects. However, a big challenge has arisen, that is, how to check the consistency o...

(1) ∂tu = a∆u− f0(u, t) + g0(x, t), u|∂Ω = 0 (or ∂u/∂ν|∂Ω = 0) where u = u(x, t) = (u, . . . , u ), x ∈ Ω b R, t ≥ 0, f0(v, s) = (f 0 , . . . , f 0 ), (v, s) ∈ R × R+, g0(x, s) = (g 0 , . . . , g 0 ), x ∈ Ω, s ≥ 0. We assume that the matrix a and the functions f0, g0 satisfy some general conditions (see Section 2). These conditions provide the existence of a solution u of the Cauchy problem for...

Any shape that is drawn using the grid graphics package can have a name associated with it. If a name is provided, it is possible to access, query, and modify the shape after it has been drawn. These facilities allow for very detailed customisations of plots and also for very general transformations of plots that are drawn by packages based on grid.

SUMMARY The rtracklayer package supports the integration of existing genome browsers with experimental data analyses performed in R. The user may (i) transfer annotation tracks to and from a genome browser and (ii) create and manipulate browser views to focus on a particular set of annotations in a specific genomic region. Currently, the UCSC genome browser is supported. AVAILABILITY The pack...