摘要：Welcome to the first issue of R News in 2003, which is also the first issue where I serve as Editor-in-Chief. This year has already seen a lot of exciting activities in the R project, one of them was the Distributed Statistical Computing Workshop that took place here in Vienna. DSC 2003 is also partly responsible for the rather late release of this newsletter, both members of the editorial board and authors of regular columns were also involved in conference organization.
