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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Smith > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 11:26 AM > To: r-help@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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html