Provides the class unions that must be preloaded in order for the basic tools in the OOMPA (Object-Oriented Microarray and Proteomics Analysis) project to be defined and loaded. It also includes vectorized operations for row-by-row means, variances, and t-tests. Finally, it provides new color schemes. Details on the packages in the OOMPA project can be found at <http://oompa.r-forge.r-project.org/>.