[254] in Software_Announce
Splus 5 for Suns installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Oct 27 16:55:46 1998
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:54:54 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have installed Splus 5 for Suns on Athena. Splus is primarily a statistical
and data analysis application, with an embedded programming language.
To access it, type:
add splus
splus -ver 5.0
at the Athena prompt. Notwithstanding what it says on the splus man page,
the GUI help system, started by typing help.start() in earlier Splus
releases, does not appear to be available. However the internal text-only
help is still there (typing help(help) at the Splus prompt will get
you started). There are also complete online manuals and release notes
in Acrobat pdf format- look at the pdf files in the
/mit/splus_v5.0/distrib/sun4x_56/doc directory with the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Please note that there are extensive changes in data representation
from earlier Splus releases, and that objects created with Splus 5 are
incompatible with those created by earlier releases. The vendor
strongly advises not to mix files from different releases, but forward
data conversion is possible. The online documentation files and
release notes explain this in detail.
The installation notes state that 64 meg of ram are required. Although
Splus 5 seems to run properly on machines with as little as 32 meg, at
least for "tiny" examples, you may run into problems if your
applications are large and use big data sets.
We expect to have versions for Linux ("soon") and SGI ("within a few months").
Splus 5 will not become the Athena default version until at least IAP, in
January 1999.
Alex
