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This book is part of theStatistics and Computing series from Springer. Continued from the back cover: This book "is intended for readers who have some acquaintance with the S language and want to know how to use it more effectively, for example, to build reusable tools for streamlining routine data analysis or to implement new statistical methods. "One of the outstanding strengths of the S language is the ease with which it can be extended by users. S is a functional language, and functions written by users are first-class objects treated in the same way as functions provided by the system. S code is eminently readable and so a good way to document precisely what algorithms were used, and as much of the implementations are themselves written in S, they can be studied both as models and to understand their subtleties. The current implementations also provide easy ways for S functions to call compiled code written in C, FORTRAN, and similar languages; this is documented here in depth. "Increasingly, S is being used for statistical or graphical analysis within larger software systems or for whole vertical-market applications. The interface facilities are most developed on Windows®, and these are covered with worked examples."CHAPTERS
Introduction
The S Language Syntax and Semantics
The S Language: Advanced Aspects
Classes
New-style Classes
Using Compiled Code
General Strategies and Extended Examples
S Software Development
Interfaces under WINDOWS
APPENDICES
Compiling and Loading Code
The Interactive Environment
BATCH Operation
The book also includes Typographical Conventions, References, and an Index.
