An introduction to S-PLUS for Windows 
 by Longhow Lam 
 paperback 270 mm x 170 mm 230 pages

 
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1. INTRODUCTION 
     1.1 INSTALLATION 
     1.2 STARTING S-PLUS 
     1.3 OTHER PRODUCTS BASED ON S AND S-PLUS 
2. HELP AND DOCUMENTATION 13
     2.1 ONLINE DOCUMENTATION 
     2.2 ONLINE HELP INFORMATION 
     2.3 BOOKS 13
     2.4 RESOURCES ON THE WEB 
3. IMPORTING DATA 
     3.1 IMPORT 
     3.2 IMPORT OPTIONS 
     3.3 FILTERING DATA 
4. MANAGING OBJECTS AND PROJECTS 
     4.1 INTRODUCTION 
     4.2 THE WORKING DATABASE, A CHAPTER AND THE SEARCHPATH 
     4.3 THE OBJECT EXPLORER 
5. DATA IN S-PLUS 
     5.1 DATA WINDOWS 
     5.2 DATA TYPES AND DATA STRUCTURES 
     5.3 DATA ENTRY IN DATA WINDOWS 
     5.4 MANIPULATING DATA 
     5.5 USING EXCEL DATA MANIPULATION FEATURES 
     5.6 EXPORTING DATA 
6. CREATING GRAPHICS 
     6.1 INTRODUCTION 
     6.2 TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHS 
     6.3 FURTHER POSSIBILITIES WITH S-PLUS GRAPHS 
     6.4 MULTIPLE GRAPHS 
     6.5 TRELLIS GRAPHICS 
     6.6 THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHS 
     6.7 EXPORTING GRAPHS 
     6.8 GRAPHING EXCEL DATA 
7. STATISTICS USING THE GUI 
     7.1 INTRODUCTION 
     7.2 AN OVERVIEW OF THE STATISTICS MENU IN S-PLUS 
     7.3 BASIC STATISTICS 
     7.4 COMPARING SAMPLES 
     7.5 STATISTICAL MODELS 
8. THE BASICS OF THE S PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
     8.1 INTRODUCTION 
     8.2 THE COMMANDS WINDOW AND SCRIPT FILE 
     8.3 DATA OBJECTS 
     8.4 DATA MANIPULATION 
     8.5 GRAPHICAL FUNCTIONS 
9. FURTHER POSSIBILITIES WITH THE S LANGUAGE 
     9.1 STATISTICS AND THE S LANGUAGE 
     9.2 WRITING FUNCTIONS 
     9.3 EFFICIENT CALCULATIONS 
     9.4 GENERATING SCRIPTS AND S-PLUS CODE 
     9.5 BLOCK READS AND WRITES 
10. MODIFYING THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) 
     10.1 INTRODUCTION 
     10.2 CREATING NEW MENUS 
     10.3 CREATING NEW TOOLBARS 
     10.4 CREATING NEW DIALOGS 
     10.5 VIEWING EXISTING DIALOGS IN THE OBJECT EXPLORER 
     10.6 S-PLUS FUNCTIONS FOR EXTENDING THE USER INTERFACE 
     10.7 DEPLOYING AND REMOVING CUSTOMIZED USER INTERFACES 

APPENDIX A   PLOT TOOLBARS 
APPENDIX B   PREFERENCES 
APPENDIX C   WHAT’S NEW IN S-PLUS 6 FOR WINDOWS 
APPENDIX D   EXERCISES