[R] ANNOUNCE: S-PLUS 7.0

[Vadim Ogranovich]

David, From the white paper, the BIG DATA THING looks quite impressive.
IMHO, it addresses the biggest limitation the S family has had so far. I
could, of course, think of few features that I wish to see there, but
the existing functionality looks fairly complete. Congratulations! An R
folk Vadim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of David Smith
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 11:26 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] ANNOUNCE: S-PLUS 7.0
> 
> Insightful is proud to announce a major update to S-PLUS available
> today: S-PLUS 7. S-PLUS 7 was designed to enable 
> statisticians to create targeted statistical applications 
> with large data sets that can be deployed to business users, 
> researchers, analysts and other end users who do not have 
> special expertise in statistical methods.
> 
> S-PLUS 7 is the result of scores of interviews with S-PLUS 
> users which drove the design and development of the new 
> features.  S-PLUS 7 has also benefited from an extensive beta 
> test program involving many participants on s-news and 
> r-help, to whom I offer sincere thanks for their feedback 
> during the development process.
> 
> The S-PLUS 7 release includes a new member of the S-PLUS 
> product family, S-PLUS Enterprise Developer, that provides 
> additional new features to S-PLUS, including:
> 
> * PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE and BIG DATA LIBRARY: S-PLUS 7 Enterprise
>   Developer introduces a new pipeline architecture by making it
>   possible to process gigabyte-sized data sets, even on machines with
>   modest amounts of RAM. With the new "big data" library, S-PLUS
>   programmers can import or create extremely large data objects by
>   using out-of-memory processing techniques. Instead of holding a
>   large data set entirely in memory, the pipeline architecture caches
>   the data file on disk and uses specialized streaming algorithms to
>   process the data, reading only a small portion of the data into
>   memory at a time.
> 
> * S-PLUS WORKBENCH INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT: an integrated
>   environment for S code development, based on the Eclipse
>   framework. This release offers the core functionality of code
>   editing, syntax error detection, project and task management,
>   interfaces with source code control systems, and interaction with
>   the S language engine.
> 
> You can read about the new features of S-PLUS, including a 
> link to a detailed white paper about the new big data library at:
> 
>    www.insightful.com/products/splus/s7_features.asp
> 
> You can also learn more about the new capabilities of S-PLUS 
> 7 at a webinar I will be giving on April 19. More info at:
> 
>    www.insightful.com/news_events/webcasts/2005/04splus
> 
> Finally, my thanks to all the members of the S community -- 
> including R folk -- who have provided such great discussion 
> and debate over the years, which has helped make S-PLUS what 
> it is today.
> 
> # David Smith
> 
> --
> David M Smith <dsmith at insightful.com>
> Senior Product Manager, Insightful Corp, Seattle WA
> Tel: +1 (206) 802 2360
> Fax: +1 (206) 283 6310
> 
> New S-PLUS 7! Create advanced statistical applications with 
> large data sets.
> www.insightful.com/splus
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