S+, R and SAS Resources

The statistical software I will be using for the course is S+. SAS will be used occasionally.

S+ Resources

S+ is based on the ( award winning) S language developed at Bell Labs by John Chambers. The S language is described in the The New S Language by Becker, Chambers & Wilks and Statistical Models in S by Chambers and Hastie, both published by CRC press. . The recommended reference book for the course is Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS by W. Venables and B. Ripley (3nd Edition). S+ is a commercial software package distributed by Mathsoft. S+ is available on Statistics Department computers, the PUCC computers on Campus.

Notes on S+ by Bill Venables This is an old text from which the recommended text was developed. The book is preferred.
S+ information from ASU

R Resources

R is a free statistical software which is also based on S. You can download copies of the software and get other information from the R Home Page.

The most recent version of R for Windows is version 0.651. See the R on Windows FAQ for help on the installation and see some additional tips on using R in Windows

Most of the materials written for S+ apply equally well to R:

You can find additional information about Splus on this page.

SAS Resources

Yon can start to learn about SAS from the following pages:

Michael Zhu - <yuzhu@stat.purdue.edu>

Last modified on 08/17/00