Re: Software for PCs

From: Niclas Jonsson <niclas.jonsson@biof.uu.se> Subject: Re: Software for PCs Date: 10 Oct 1997 05:08:28 -0400 OK, here is some more S-PLUS stuff! I totally agree with Mark about the merits of S-PLUS. The graphics *are* outstanding and especially the Trellis Graphics library lends itself to the visualization of population data. (As it seems from the other responses to this question, there are some similarities between the functionality in CrossGraph's graphics and the Trellis Graphics in S-PLUS.) But in a addition to the strong graphic capabilities S-PLUS has almost limitless possibilities when it comes to statistical modeling. The downside of S-PLUS 3.3 for windows is that it is command line driven and has a rather steep learning curve. Even in S-PLUS 4.0 it will be necessary to use the command line since the GUI doesn't cover all the functionality (it doesn't even come close). The good news is that there is a program called Xpose (written by me and Mats Karlsson) that automates a large majority of the things you might want to do in S-PLUS in conjunction with a population analysis. Xpose is free ad can be obtained from www.biof.uu.se/Xpose. There is also a beta version of the next release of Xpose (2.0) that can be obtained from ftp.biof.uu.se. Note! The beta release is not in any way tuned for S-PLUS 4.0 so there might be trouble if version 4 of S-PLUS is used. Niclas