Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language (Lecture Notes in Economics and)

John M. Chambers

ISBN 10: 0387985034 / ISBN 13: 9780387985039

Published by Springer 2008-05-23, 2008

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Title: Programming with Data: A Guide to the S ...

Publisher: Springer 2008-05-23

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Here is a thorough and authoritative guide to the latest version of the S language and its programming environment. Programming With Data describes a new and greatly extended version of S, written by the chief designer of the language itself. It is a guide to the complete programming process, starting from simple, interactive use, and continuing through ambitious software projects. The focus is on the needs of the programmer/user, with the aim of turning ideas into software, quickly and faithfully. The new version of S provides a powerful class/method structure, new techniques to deal with large objects, extended interfaces to other languages and files, object-based documentation compatible with HTML, and powerful new interactive programming techniques. This version of S underlies the S-Plus system, versions 5.0 and higher.

About the Author:

John Chambers has been a member of technical staff in reserach at Bell Laboratories since 1966. In 1977, he became the first statistician to be named a Bell Labs Fellow, cited for "pioneering contributions to the field of statistical computing." His research has touched on nearly all aspects of computing with data but he is best known for the design of the S language. He is the author or co-author of seven books.