RE: Software for PCs (S-plus 4.0)

From: Suneui Hong <sehong@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> Subject: RE: Software for PCs (S-plus 4.0) Date: 10 Oct 1997 01:41:53 -0400 Recently, S-plus version 4.0 is available with nice GUI (graphical user interface) and powerful graphics. Until version 3.3, all statistical analysese and graphics could be done by commands which was easy for the C or C++ programmers because S is a subset language of C for statistics. However, Version 4.0 enables the users without any programming background to do almost everything. It provides a spreadsheed style data manipulation and menu driven statistical analysis and graphics are possible. Another thing I want to mention is the Help system, which is different from usual applications running on windows or windows NT. Its help system provides all manuals just like books.. It is very easy to find what I want to see. Also, all the instruction is easy to follow. The S-plus company(StatSci) argue that "S-plus is not simply a programming language, like C or Fortaran. It is much more: a full-function calculator, a statistical package, a graphics tool, and so on". It provides the interface to C++ and Fortran and it looks quite efficient because we can use statistics modules and graphics modules on S-plus. I have been using S-plus for just 3 months.. I'm actually a novice. But I am already able to do most of statistical analysis and graphings on S-plus. I may be too much complimentary on S-plus.. but I felt it's worthwhile to say like that... Thank you.. Sunny Hong A Ph.D. student in Pharmacokintiec/Pharmacodynamics (Also a MS student in Statistics) College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa E-mail : sehong@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Tel) 319)335-9735 Fax) 319)353-5646