Just to say thanks to all those who replied to my question. I decided my next
step will be to try again to obtain MS Visual Studio/C++ v6 (although I gather
it's been superseded by the .NET version, and was not available from our usual
suppliers when I bought the latter).
Neal
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Neal Alexander wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I bought Microsoft C++ .NET (v7), hoping to use it with CONNECT/C++ in S+ 6.1
> for Windows (2000). Having had some problems, I found Charles Annis'
> thoroughgoing messages from July this year. Having contacted him off the
> list, it seems that the problems have been well acknowledged by Insightful,
> but are ongoing.
>
> So, my question is: can anyone out there recommend a version of C++ which
> works well with S+ 6.0/6.1 for Windows? As a C++ novice I would like to use
> as many of the CONNECT/C++ tools as possible. The content of what I want to
> do is not too fancy: recode some specialized likelihood functions from pure
> S+ to C++, in order to speed them up. One constraint: having already used
> grant money to buy something which turns out not to work, any additional
> version of C++ would need to be cheap!
>
> (Finally, I know, with hindsight, maybe I should have gone for another OS,
> but I already bought S+ for Windows!)
>
> TIA,
>
> Neal
Neal Alexander, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics & Epidemiology
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Dept of Infectious & Tropical Diseases
London School of Hygiene&Tropical Medicine,Keppel St,London WC1E 7HT,UK
neal.alexander@lshtm.ac.uk; tel (+44) 20 7927 2826; fax 20 7636 8739
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