Here is some information about upcoming courses from Insightful's training department that may be of interest to s-news subscribers. Additional information is available at the links provided. Please
As part of Insightful's commitment to the quality of S-PLUS, a maintenance update for S-PLUS 7 is now available. This patch applies to the following editions of S-PLUS: * S-PLUS 7 Professional Develo
S-PLUS 7.0 Enterprise has many new capabilities compared to S-PLUS 6.2. The main ones are: - Pipeline Architecture and Big Data Library. This enables you to create bdFrame objects (analagous to data
If you have S-PLUS 7.0 available, you could use the new colTypes argument to importData. This will let you specify the column types in advance as character, and convert them later as you suggest. Oth
The correlatedData library, included with S-PLUS 7 (all editions), supports estimation of generalized linear mixed models, including mixed logistic models. More info in the correlatedData manual. In
We've looked into it, and it turns out that the actual bug is related to use of relative dates. I've posted additional information at: http://www.insightful.com/insightful_faq/dsp_article.asp?articl
Versions of S-PLUS before version 7, and the Professional Developer edition of S-PLUS 7.0, are in-memory applications. Simply put, this means that S-PLUS must keep copies of your data, and any interm
I wanted to take a moment to clarify some of the points from Yannis Tzamouranis's post below. As those who have upgraded to S-PLUS 7 will know, we switched license management software to the industry
And regarding point 1 below, I'll raise Andy's $0.02 by a penny or so :) While servers with large amounts of RAM are now becoming available, the pipeline architecture and big data library of S-PLUS 7
To correct my previous post, the S-PLUS 7 Enterprise webinar by Greg Gupton of Moody's will be on Tuesday August 2 2005 at 11AM Eastern US Time. (And not April 2. I guess my typing fingers are runnin
I'll re-iterate what Jean said (thanks, Jean). There's no new restriction with the license for S-PLUS regarding laptops whether docked or undocked, but there is a quirk with the license manager when
Scott has stumbled upon one of the differences between S and S-PLUS. Validity checking was introduced as part of S version 4 in the original implementation by John Chambers, which was described in th
S-PLUSŪ Graphical Analysis of Clinical Data: Exploratory and Production Presented by Matt Austin This course covers the basic tools required to begin working effectively with S-PLUS in the pharmace
Registration is now open for this year's Insightful User Conference, to be held in Boston, October 20-22. You can find details about the conference at: http://www.insightful.com/news_events/2004uc Th