I cannot speak for the R Foundation, but you know, getting a US check into money is roughly 20$ fees (at least in Germany, don't know the typical Austrian conditions).

I know from organizing a conference in Germany that the only really good way was and is ordinary money transfer via BIC and IBAN numbers. Unfortunately, this system is pretty unknown in the US. Europeans can easily use money transfer to the R foundation.

Credit card bookings are already rather expensive and even more expensive if you go for online processing rather than manual Fax processing (I do not know why the credit card companies prefer Fax), checks less than several hundred euros do not make sense at all.

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges





On 16.09.2010 15:49, Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
I mailed a check for an R Foundation membership almost a year ago, along
with the form. In US dollars, corrected by the then-current Euro
exchange rate. It has never been cashed.

Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904
cryanatbinghamtondotedu

"Observation is a more powerful force than you could possibly reckon.
The invisible, the overlooked, and the unobserved are the most in danger
of reaching the end of the spectrum. They lose the last of their light.
 From there, anything can happen . . ." [God, in "Joan of Arcadia,"
episode entitled, "The Uncertainty Principle."]

stephen sefick wrote:
I am a poor student, and would gladly donate 20ish bucks if it would
help. R continues to make me more productive. Thanks for all of the
good work!


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