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Archive-name: auto/aus.stats.s/Snotes-version-2-0-Splus-edition-now-available

An updated and extended version of my introductory notes on S will shortly
be submitted to statlib.

This version has been extensively revised to incorporate some of the new
material from the August 1991 release, including data frames, factors,
modelling functions and the like.  It also has more detailed and precise
material on the graphical facilities due to David Smith, who is now a
co-author.  

It has also changed from S notes to Splus notes, as I now work with S-PLUS
because of a change of machine.  I have, however, largely steered clear of
Splus specific functions, and so I hope they will be generally useful to
any novice S user, but of course they do not attempt to replace the
official manuals.

If you wish to get a pre-release copy you could collect them by anonymous
ftp from my workstation:

	       attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au (129.127.44.15)

in the pub/ directory.  (Unfortunately this is not the most convenient
machine for anonymous ftp; for example ange-ftp within emacs does not work.
However if you connect directly from the shell, it works OK.)

Here is an `ls -l' of the appropriate part of the directory:

  /attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au:/usr/users/ftp/pub:
  total 791
  drwxrwxrwx  3 wvenable     1024 Aug  3 22:22 .
  drwxr-xr-x  6 root          512 Dec  2  1991 ..

  -rw-r--r--  1 wvenable   120881 Apr 21 19:06 SplusData.tar.Z
  -rw-r--r--  1 wvenable   232313 Jul 30 00:01 SplusNotes.ps.Z
  -rw-r--r--  1 wvenable   364687 Jul 30 00:01 SplusNotes.tar.Z

  -rw-r--r--  1 wvenable    27842 Jun 19 08:36 oz.shar.Z

The files are as follows:

SplusData.tar.Z   -  data frames and functions to accompany the notes.
SplusNotes.tar.Z  -  full LaTeX version of the notes.
SplusNotes.ps.Z   -  PostScript (from dvips) version, fitting on A4 paper.

oz.shar.Z         -  Crude map-of-australia type geographical display
		     function, referred to in passing in the notes but not
		     essential.

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Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@stats.adelaide.edu.au
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