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Dewey Class	005.133
Title	S Programming ([EBook]) / by W. N. Venables, B. D. Ripley.
Author	Venables, William N.
Added Personal Name	Ripley, Brian D. , 1952-
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	New York, NY : Springer , 2000.
Physical Details	X, 265 pages. 10 illus. : online resource.
Series	Statistics and computing 1431-8784
ISBN	9780387218564
Summary Note	S is a high-level language for manipulating, analysing and displaying data. It forms the basis of two highly acclaimed and widely used data analysis software systems, the commercial S-PLUS® and the Open Source R. This book provides an in-depth guide to writing software in the S language under either or both of those systems. It is intended for readers who have some acquaintance with the S language and want to know how to use it more effectively, for example to build re-usable tools for streamlining routine data analysis or to implement new statistical methods. One of the outstanding strengths of the S language is the ease with which it can be extended by users. S is a functional language, and functions written by users are first-class objects treated in the same way as functions provided by the system. S code is eminently readable and so a good way to document precisely what algorithms were used, and as much of the implementations are themselves written in S, they can be studied as models and to understand their subtleties. The current implementations also provide easy ways for S functions to call compiled code written in C, Fortran and similar languages; this is documented here in depth. Increasingly S is being used for statistical or graphical analysis within larger software systems or for whole vertical-market applications. The interface facilities are most developed on Windows® and these are covered with worked examples. The authors have written the widely used Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS, now in its third edition, and several software libraries that enhance S-PLUS and R; these and the examples used in both books are available on the Internet. Dr. W.N. Venables is a senior Statistician with the CSIRO/CMIS Environmetrics Project in Australia, having been at the Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide for many years previously. Professor B.D. Ripley holds the Chair of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford, and is the author of four other books on spatial statistics, simulation, pattern recognition and neural networks. Both authors are known and respected throughout the international S and R communities, for their books, workshops, short courses, freely available software and through their extensive contributions to the S-news and R mailing lists.:
Contents note	1 Introduction -- 2 The S Language: Syntax and Semantics -- 3 The S Language: Advanced Aspects -- 4 Classes -- 5 New-style Classes -- 6 Using Compiled Code -- 7 General Strategies and Extended Examples -- 8 S Software Development -- 9 Interfaces under Windows -- Appendices -- A Compiling and Loading Code -- A.1 Procedures with S-PLUS -- A.2 Procedures with R -- A.3 Common concerns -- A.4 Writing Dynamic Link Libraries for Windows -- B The Interactive Environment -- B.1 History and audit trails -- B.2 Options -- B.3 Session startup and finishing functions -- C BATCH Operation -- C.1 S-PLUS -- C.2 R -- References.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21856-4
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Mathematics . Probabilities . Probability theory and stochastic processes . S (Computer system) . Statistics . Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs . Authors: author . Ripley, Brian D. 1952- . Venables, William N. . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Statistics and computing . Classification: 005.133 . 005.133 (DDC 21) .

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