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Ease of S-plus, my 0.0199999997 cents worth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Riverrun past Eve and Adam)
Mon Jan 30 09:26:16 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 08:51:22 EST
From: monica@mtb.phil.mop.com (Riverrun past Eve and Adam)
To: S-news@utstat.toronto.edu
IMO, the most difficult problem is that S-plus is used by a wide range of people
in a wide range of fields with varying level of sophistication in both mathematics
and computers. Personally, I found the beginning manuals very helpful, but as I grew
more adept, I found the more advanced documentation lacked specific examples.
Most of my problems are in area of statistical finance. My approach when uncertain of
exactly what a funtion does is to take smaller samples and work them out in some other
manner and compare the results with S-plus. This is a tad cumbersome, but it works.
Ideally, what would be grand is an additional group of manuals (or more detailed help)
geared toward a specific discipline. IE(S for the Biologist, S for the Financial
Analyst, ETAL) These should be comprised of mostly examples.
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AN ASIDE:
GWK0@NIOSR1.EM.CDC.GOV mentioned some manuals,
May I suggest my favorite(UNIX/C-SHELL), _The UNIX C SHELL FIELD GUIDE_,
Anderson and Anderson. It is published by Prentice-Hall.
Monica M. Taylor
COOPER NEFF/BNP, INC
GWK0@NIOSR1.EM.CDC.GOV
