[R] COMMERCIAL: S-PLUS Data Analysis Software now Available on Linux (fwd)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jeffrey A. Royle wrote:

> Yea, they've been saying this for months!  A Statsci rep told me
> at the joint meetings last year that it would be out in October,
> it wasn't, and then they had a press release in late november or something
> and it still wasn't out.  In any case, it's only $5000 for a single user

Oh, come on, lots of users do have copies out there; it has been shipping
in the UK for a couple of months, and your prices bear no resemblence to
those academics at least actually pay (and you are posting from an
academic address). We know: we have paid for ours.

I don't think unsubstantiated S-PLUS knocking on R-help is helpful.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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