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As literate creatures, we humans commucate with symbols: letters, numbers, characters, marks. Every language and culture has its own. If you wanted to take a look at all of the symbols we use around the world, how long do you think it would take? Well, if you convert all 49571 of the Unicode system into a movie running at 24 frames per second, it takes over 33 minutes.

With Tax Day fast approaching here in the US, there's been a lot of discussion about tax policy and in particular the tax rates paid by the highest income earners. Like in many countries, here the income tax system is bracketed:

The R Core Group has released the latest update to open-source R, R 2.13.0 is now available. You can download the new source distribution from the R Project website, and I see from the Download R tool at inside-R.org that binaries for Windows and Mac are already available at my local CRAN mirror (and, shortly, yours too). 

The folks over at Rstudio have released a new update to their open-source R GUI, currently in beta test. This Beta 2 release adds more customizable layouts, editor improvements and new editing themes. Also of interest is a new feature that allows creation of graphics that update under the control of sliders and checkboxes and such.