Welcome to the S-PLUS 8.0 for Windows Support Page!

Thanks for installing S-PLUS. Look here to find the latest news about S-PLUS, with information designed to make your S-PLUS experience more rewarding.

The information on this page refers to:
S-PLUS 8.0.4 for Windows

Information on this page relates to this version. You can check the version you have by selecting About S-PLUS from the Help menu in S-PLUS. Information on the previous release is also available.

GETTING STARTED

Before you start using S-PLUS, we suggest reading the Getting Started Guide. This includes a step-by-step tutorial on reading, visualizing and analyzing data in S-PLUS. The Getting Started Guide was included with your copy of S-PLUS, and can be found in the Help > Online Manuals menu.

S-PLUS 8 offers a number of new features and enhancements to existing features including:

• S-PLUS Package System: This feature provides statistical developers a convenient framework for creating and distributing libraries for S-PLUS. Windows tools requirements can be found here.
  
  
• Graphics Enhancements: New command-line graphics functionality. The new features include support for named colors (for example, col="red"), alternative color specification models, color palettes, and vectorized parameters for drawing points, lines, and text.
  
  
• S-PLUS Workbench Debugger: Allows users to debug S-PLUS code from within the Eclipse Workbench. This application has modern debugging tools like step debugging and breakpoints.
  

For information about other new features in S-PLUS 8.0, read the Release Notes:

S-PLUS 8.0 Release Notes

For additional documentation select Help -> Online Manuals from within S-PLUS.

FEATURED LINKS

For more information on our existing packages available for distribution and how you can create your own, please visit http://csan.insightful.com.

See the S-PLUS FAQ for a list of frequently-asked questions and answers.

Additional libraries for S-PLUS are available as beta-test downloads from Insightful resource libraries.

Also, see our collection of S-PLUS links with sources of user-contributed packages for S-PLUS.

For discussions about S-PLUS, we recommend the s-news mailing list. Click here for instructions on how to join the list. Archives of the list are also available. See our User Groups page for more information on this and other on-line communities.

There are dozens of books available to provide in-depth information related to S-PLUS - see our books page for a complete list. The Basics of S and S-PLUS (Krause & Olson) and Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS (Venables & Ripley) are highly-recommended community favorites.

A training course in S-PLUS is a great way to become familiar with S-PLUS and increase your productivity. See our training pages for course descriptions, times, and locations.

A number of add-on modules are available for S-PLUS in areas such as spatial statistics, numerical optimization, and environmental statistics. See our modules page for a list

CONTACTS AND FEEDBACK

For questions about your S-PLUS license, please contact an S-PLUS sales representative in your country.

Need help with S-PLUS? See the support page for information on how to contact a local technical support engineer.

If you would like to make a suggestion for an enhancement to S-PLUS or would like to report a bug, please email bugs@insightful.com.