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Splus on Athena updated to release 5.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Jul 12 18:31:06 1999
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, aurora@MIT.EDU, dryfoo@MIT.EDU, jf@MIT.EDU,
genton@math.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:30:17 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have updated the Splus statistical package on Athena, and it is now
the default for all platforms (on Linux, glibc2 based systems
only). To run it type "add splus; splus" at the Athena prompt.
You can still run the old 3.4 release (SGI, Sun) by typing:
add splus
splus -ver 3.4
The 5.0 release now on Athena for Sun and Linux machines will be
deleted in the near future- however we intend to keep the older 3.4
release around for an extended period to ease migration difficulties-
at least until the end of the Fall 1999 semester.
We have also added the Spatial Statistics Module-
to enable it you first need to load it by typing
module(spatial)
at the > prompt.
A new, Netscape-based help system is available and can be invoked by
typing help.start() at the Splus > prompt. You will need to have both
Java and Javascript enabled to make it fully functional. help() will
invoke text-based help (using an internal copy of the Lynx Web
browser).
There are also complete online manuals and release notes in Acrobat
pdf format- look at the pdf files in the /mit/splus_v5.1/www directory
with the Adobe Acrobat Reader- in particular, readme.pdf and migrate.pdf
for information about new features and upward migration from older
Splus releases.
Alex
