STA 113 - S-plus
Get a free tutorial and reference on
Splus
in general (section on Splus; postscript or html).
Splus is most efficiently used from within
emacs:
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You will need to make some changes to
your configuration file. Add the following lines to your
".emacs" file.
If you don't have a .emacs file (in your home directory), create one with
these
commands in the .emacs file
Commands for running Splus from
within emacs.
Find a short tutorial on emacs in the Duke Statistics
computing guide -- look for the section on "Editing Files".
You can use Mathematica for symbolic computations
(derivatives, second derivative matrices etc).