[R] S-PLUS 8 beta program [repost]

[Jeff Laake]

I don't typically post to r-help but I could not pass up responding.  
While I don't use S+ any longer many folks in my lab do use it and there 
is a viable and useful market for it.  Personally I welcome the 
direction Insightful is taking.  I don't know David Smith but I take my 
hat off to him for an appropriate and measured response.  I'm not 
certain I would have been as polite.

Jeff Laake