Hello Everyone,
 
My company purchased S-Plus before it was bought out by Tibco. My understanding is that we own version 7.0 outright. 
 
So far, I've been learning in R but thought I might also try working in S-Plus. My understanding is that S-Plus has some useful extra features. Another potential benefit would be the ability to purchase technical support, which I thought might help me to learn the S language.
 
I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice about the wisdom or folly of trying to use both products. For example, how well do the two play together? If I learn to do something using a package in R, is their some way to bring that into S-Plus? I've noticed that some R packages, such as MASS and Hmisc are in S-Plus but are unsupported. Others, such as reshape, appear not to be in the program but I thought maybe they could be imported.
 
I know that R and S-Plus code are supposed to be very similar. I was just wondering how similar. Yesterday, I ran some code from the MASS package in S-Plus but the program didn't produce the graph I exepected to see. I've been able to use windows() in R to correct this, but S-Plus doesn't recognize that. So I was wondering how often code written in one program would fail to work in the other.
 
Any insights you can offer will be most appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Paul 
 


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