S-PLUS®8—Write Better Code, Faster and Share Your Results Anywhere

S-PLUS 8.0 is our most comprehensive update to the S-PLUS product family, and is designed to enable statisticians to create statistical applications with large data sets and rich, graphic output for use by business users, researchers, analysts and others to make informed and reliable decisions at critical points across the organization.

NEW FEATURES IN S-PLUS 8.0 ENTERPRISE DEVELOPER

The S-PLUS Workbench enhancements: Building on our success with the 7.0 release we have added new capabilities to speed your development efforts and improve the quality of your code.

• Debugger tool: The interactive debugger allows users to quickly debug S-PLUS code from within the S-PLUS workbench.  The application has modern debugging tools including step debugging and breakpoints.
• Profiler tool: The profiler provides an environment for writing and developing functions in S-PLUS that allow profiling of time and memory allocation within S-PLUS tasks.  You can now optimize the code’s execution by evaluating where bottlenecks may occur.

With the enhanced S-PLUS Workbench, you can create reliable statistical applications for deployment across the enterprise with greater speed than ever before.

New graphic enhancements: Already a leading platform for graphics creation and delivery, in version 8 we have included a larger and normalized color palette as well as simplifying the code necessary to deliver complex graphs and charts. Whether you are creating graphics for submission to a regulatory agency, distributing to a group of executive decision-makers, or creating for publication, S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer makes this task easier and more time efficient.

New S-PLUS Package System: With published packages available S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer provides a convenient framework for creating and distributing libraries for S-PLUS and for converting R packages for use in S-PLUS. For more information on our existing packages available for distribution and how you can create your own, please visit http://csan.insightful.com.

S™ language extensions: Over one hundred new functions have been added in order to support the graphics enhancements, S-PLUS Package System and to augment compatibility with S-PLUS open source cousin; R. Types of functions that have been added include math, character, file manipulation and string manipulation.

For a complete listing of features and functions available in S-PLUS 8.0 you can view and/or download this data sheet [PDF].