This is an R port of Efron & Tibshirani's boostrap S-library that accompanies their 1993 book `An introduction to the bootstrap'. Changes from original: changed all dyn.load2 calls to use dyn.load fixed call of boott (had 2 variable argument lists) restructered help files for R consistency added dummy help page for data and internal functions Fritz Leisch New changes as of 2005: returns of the form return( , , , ...) changed to return(list( , , , ...)) Code - documentation inconsistencies removed Added help pages for all the datasets, and removed the dummy one. Added examples, some new datasets added. Kjetil Halvorsen 2012: Introduced file NAMESPACE Introduced date-based version numbers. Fixed an error in th examples section of abcnon.Rd README (earlier name of this file) renamed to NEWS Scott Kostyshak began maintaining in 2014.