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Running R on the Web by Ewan Crawford: There are a number of ways to run R over the web. For instance one can ‘shell’ it from a Perl, ASP or PHP script. The recent article “Web-Created Real Data Worksheets” discusses the use of RWeb to carry out routine calculations. This implementation runs on a Windows 2000 server using R by ‘shelling’ from ASP scripts. Another approach to Rweb’s ‘shelling’ the program is to make R memory resident and call it as required. This approach is highly suited to using R as a background library which can be called by Excel, Visual Basic, ASP web pages or any number of other programs. The method I’ve used turns R into a (D)COM object…/…Weighing the Odds: a course in Probability and Statistics by John Biggins: This book is a serious introduction to the theory of probability and what might be called the mathematical ideas of statistics, with enough in it for several undergraduate courses in a mathematics degree. The clear aim is to interest the mathematical student in the area through important examples and nice applications of mathematics. David Williams is the right person to take on this task; he is a very distinguished mathematician with an enthusiasm for the subject which lights up the book. The book should be read, and the contents pondered on, by everyone who teaches ‘second courses’ on probability or statistics in a mathematics degree; any good student on such courses would surely be excited by the book….