Collaborative Research Projects between Insightful Corporation and the R Community David A. Henderson, Insightful Corporation At Insightful Corporation, we are actively seeking avenues for cooperation with researchers in computational statistical science. Our primary venue for this activity is creating packages that function in both dialects of the S language and maintain an open source development process. We present three examples of this process in the hope that their success will spur additional cooperative research projects. S +LARS is a new project aimed at developing least angle regression methodology and analytics simultaneously for both R and S-PLUS using an open source model and active collaborations between academic and industrial institutions. S+Fractal is a comprehensive toolkit to analyze (so-called) fractal statistical structures found in many real-world observations. To increase the use of S+Fractal and dissemination of the technology, we are implementing the technology as an R package are also writing a book about the methodology. R-Genetics is a collaborative project between several academic institutions and pharmacogenomics and software industry partners to produce software for statistical analysis using molecular markers. The code from the R-Genetics project will be included in the next BioConductor release (likely labeled version 2.0) and currently includes analytics for detecting linkage disequilibrium between molecular markers and phenotypic events. We will discuss briefly the proposed methodology of each project, their development model and end goals, and identify ways to promote active collaboration between Insightful and the R community.