The New S Language

by R. Becker

Overview

This book provides documentation for a new version of the S system released in 1988. The new S enhances the features that have made S popular: interactive computing, flexible graphics, data management and a large collection of functions. The new S features make possible new applications and higher-level programming, including a single unified language, user defined functions as first-class objects, symbolic computations, more accurate numerical calculations and a new approach to graphics. S now provides direct interfaces to the poowerful tool of the UNIX operating system and to algorithms implemented in Fortran and C.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351091886
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/04/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	720
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Becker, R.

Table of Contents

1. How to Beat the Lottery 2. Tutorial Introduction to S 3. Using the S Language 4. Graphical Methods in S 5. Data in S 6. Writing Functions 7. More on Writing Functions 8. More about Data 9. Examples and Case Studies 10. Advanced Graphics 11. How S Works