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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 09:33:57 PDT
From: stephen@gandalf.berkeley.edu (Stephen Shiboski)
To: gondwana@athena.mit.edu
Subject: NewS

The latest release of S by AT&T (version 3.0) has been compiled
for and is running on NeXTs. Unfortunately, AT&T charges $5000 for
a 10 user license (educational price) and offers no single user options.
Statsci Inc. in Seattle produces a commercial version of S called Splus.
It has everything in the AT&T version, with some enhancements and additions.
They are in the process of porting version 3.0 to the NeXT. The first release
will run under X windows (this is now in beta testing), with the NeXTstep
version to follow sometime in the next year. The X version should be on the 
market no later than May of this year and will cost around $900 (educational).
I think that purchasers of the X version should receive free upgrades to the 
NeXTstep version. Splus does support the dynamic loading feature of S,
whereby user-written C and FORTRAN routines can be called. Also, version 3.0
adds "packages" for  linear and nonlinear regression, analysis of variance, 
generalized linear models, nonparametric regression, generalized additive models
, etc. This is a real improvement over the last version for the casual user.

If you have the opportunity, posting this to comp.sys.next.misc would be a 
service to the NeXT community. I don't get many chances to read (or post to) 
the news groups ...

					 Cheers,

					 Steve Shiboski
					 University of Calif., San Francisco
					 stephen@stat.Berkeley.EDU