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S-News Frequently Asked Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (charles@Playfair.Stanford.EDU)
Mon Feb 20 14:57:18 1995
To: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 11:31:25 -0800
From: charles@Playfair.Stanford.EDU
Frequently Asked Questions about S
Current FAQ Version: 1.18
Last Updated: Jan. 10, 1995
Note that the S-news mailing list has a Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) document. The document contains answers to some of the most
frequently asked questions in the S-news mailing list and
sci.math.stat newsgroup about S and S-PLUS. They're all good
questions, but they come up often enough that substantial net
bandwidth can be saved by looking there first before asking.
The FAQ was initiated by Shanti Gomatam and B. Narasimhan, and is
currently available in ASCII, TeXInfo, and HTML versions. These are
maintained by Charles Roosen (charles@playfair.stanford.edu) with the
gracious assistance of Martin Maechler and many subscribers to the
S-news mailing list.
The primary document is the TeXInfo file. The HTML version is
automatically produced from the TeXInfo version using `texi2html'. The
ASCII version is produced from the TeXInfo using `makeinfo'.
The easiest way to view the FAQ is to use a Web browser such as Mosaic.
The URL is
http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/~roosen/S-faq_toc.html
The FAQ is also available by anonymous FTP. The most recent version
is archived at `ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch' in directory `/pub/Doc' in
the following formats:
S-faq.txt ASCII version
S-faq.info for (Emacs) info reader [menu,...]
S-faq.ps Postscript
S-faq.ps.gz Postscript COMPRESSED by 'gzip'
[use binary FTP then uncompress using gunzip]
The FAQ is also archived at Statlib, although the version there may
lag behind the one at ethz.ch. Statlib may be reached by anonymous
FTP at `lib.stat.cmu.edu'. Two versions of the FAQ are kept in the
`/S' directory:
faq ASCII version
faq.texinfo TeXInfo version
For example, to obtain S-faq.txt from ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch:
csh> ftp ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch
Name (ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch:charles): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
ftp> cd pub/Doc
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get S-faq.txt
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