The S-Plus Package System

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Kaluzny, Insightful Corporation

S-PLUS 8 introduced packages for extending the software. An S-PLUS package can include S-PLUS language code, C/Fortran code, data and documentation. While the package system is used primarily to add new computational techniques to the language, it can also be used to share data, analysis methods and documentation. This presentation gives an overview of the key features of the S-PLUS package system and provides some examples of packages used in pharmaceutical statistics. Creating, testing and distributing a simple package will be demonstrated.

Dr. Stephen Kaluzny is currently a Director of Statistics Research at Insightful Corporation. Stephen previously managed the development team for Insightful's core S-PLUS product. He has over 20 years experience in the development of commercial statistical and data analysis software.
His research interests include statistical visualization methods, computing environments for data analysis and spatial statistics. Stephen holds a B.S. in Ecology from the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay, an M.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Washington.

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