Insightful is proud to announce a major update to S-PLUS available today:
S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer
Key Features In S-PLUS 8.0
* Workbench: This feature, originally introduced in S-PLUS 7, has been
further enhanced in the 8 release. Programmers can speed the
development of applications for competitive advantage by using the new
debugger and profiler. The interactive debugger allows users to
quickly debug S-PLUS code from within the S-PLUS workbench. The
workbench has modern debugging tools including step debugging and
breakpoints. The profiler provides an environment for writing and
developing functions in S-PLUS that allow profiling of time and memory
allocation within S-PLUS tasks. The user can now optimize the code's
execution by evaluating where bottlenecks exist.
* Graphics Enhancements: Version 8 contains many enhancements to
command line graphics. This includes a revised system for setting
colors that allows global color palettes (the same color settings can
be used with all devices e.g. graphsheet, pdf.graph and wmf.graph)
and the specification of colors by name. Graphical parameters for
data points (e.g. col, cex, pch) can now be a vector. Additional
graphical parameters have been added to allow finer control of the
settings for a plot.
* S-PLUS Package System: A package system, not unlike the system in R
(S-PLUS's open-source cousin), provides a convenient framework for
creating and distributing S functions, data and documentation. The
Comprehensive S-PLUS Archive Network (CSAN) website
(http://csan.insightful.com) already contains 25 packages to be shared
with users. Many of these packages were ported from R. S-PLUS 8
includes many new functions to make porting packages and sharing code
between R and S-PLUS easier.
* S language extensions: Over one hundred new functions have been added
in order to support the graphics enhancements, the S-PLUS Package
System and to augment compatibility with R. Types of functions that
have been added include math, character, file manipulation and string
manipulation.
S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer was put through a lengthy beta testing
period to provide for the most comprehensive response to testers'
comments as well as thorough testing of new features and functions.
Customers have responded enthusiastically to the new release.
AVAILABILITY/PLATFORMS
S-PLUS 8 is available today for Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (X86 and X86-64) and Sun SPARC Solaris operating systems.
I want to thank to all the members of the S community who have provided
such great discussion and debate over the years, which has helped make
S-PLUS what it is today.
-Stephen Kaluzny
S-PLUS Development Manager
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