International S-PLUS User Conference (Washington 98)

Workshops by Bill Venables & Brian Ripley

We gave two, linked, one-day workshops on October 6 and 7, 1998 preceding the 1998 International S-PLUS User Conference at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel in Washington DC.

Efficient Programming in S

  1. Efficiency and resource management issues. Resource usage monitoring. Vectorization.
  2. A comparative review of the old and new engines: S-PLUS 4.x and 5.0.
  3. Adding compiled code to S-PLUS.
  4. Packaging code in libraries: preparing help files, scripts and Makefiles, __BIG format.
  5. Preparing a GUI interface for S-PLUS 4.x.
  6. Manipulations on the language itself: the polynomial library.

The following material is available on-line:

OHPs for WNV's talks compressed postscript
Handout of S code for WNV's talks compressed postscript S3 code examples S4 code examples
OHPs for BDR's talks compressed postscript
Handout of S code for BDR's talks compressed postscript

Modern Data Analysis in S-PLUS

  1. Visualization, density estimation and (low-dimensional) smoothing.
  2. The design, development and testing of model-fitting functions.
  3. Beyond linear regression: additive and projection-pursuit regression.
  4. Neural networks.
  5. Regression and classification trees.
  6. A case study: developing the lda functions.

The following material is available on-line:

References compressed postscript
OHPs for most of the talks compressed postscript
OHPs for WNV's first talk compressed postscript
Handout of S code for WNV's second talk compressed postscript
S software code for examples functions used (run first)
Self-extracting archive of libraries for S-PLUS 4.5Wash.exe (1.1Mb)

Note also the on-line complements to our book expand on much of this material.

Authors:

Dr W. N. Venables
Department of Statistics
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia 5005
Australia

Email: Bill.Venables@adelaide.edu.au

Professor B. D. Ripley
Department of Statistics
1 South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3TG
UK

Email: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk

Last updated on Sunday 18 October 1998 by Brian Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)