May 1998:

Short course on S-Plus

Contents:

• Links to resources
• Current news
• Handouts

Links to resources

• On-line texts about S and S-Plus:
• Addenda to Venables and Ripley Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus (Second Edition)
• Using S-Plus under Windows:  S-PLUS 4.x complement. to MASS.
• Programming complement
• Statistics complement
• Complement on R
• Carlos Alzola Frank Harrell's book: An Introduction to S-Plus and the Hmisc and Design libraries
• S Poetry by Patrick Burns: an excellent book aimed at S programmers.
• NLME (Non-linear mixed effects) by Bates and Pinheiro and beta release for new version 3.0
• ESS manual: An emacs front-end for S. The software can be downloaded from CRAN (:= Comprehensive R Archive Network), /src/other/ess/ where is any of the CRAN (mirror)sites, such as on Statlib: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
• Frank Harrell's Hmisc and print.display
• Statlib: Software and extensions for the S (Splus) language
• Oswald: software for longitudinal data analysis
• Classif library by Brian Ripley. (ftp)

For Windows: html or ftp. [His] latest book (`Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks', 1996, CUP 0-521-46086-7, details at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/PRbook/, has the backgound and worked examples for these methods.

• Bill Cleveland's course on visualization
• S-Plus FAQ
• Current selected messages in S-news.
• Old selected messages in S-news.
• s-news archive
• Searching s-news archive
• S-news Database
• Terry Thernau's piece on SAS vs S
• StaSci
• StatLib---Software and extensions for the S (Splus) language

Current news

• S/SPlus FAQ
• Classif library by Brian Ripley. (ftp)

For Windows: html or ftp. [His] recent book (`Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks', 1996, CUP 0-521-46086-7, details at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/PRbook/, has the backgound and worked examples for these methods.

• Frank Harrell's Statistical Computing Tools
• Venables and Ripley: Methods of Applied Statistics with S-Plus
• Selected messages in S-news.
• s-news archive
• Searching s-news archive
• S-news Database
• Terry Thernau's piece on SAS vs S
• StaSci
• StatLib---Software and extensions for the S (Splus) language

Handouts

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