Introduction
To Splus

Starting and Stopping...

Starting...

Splus is almost exclusively a command-line program. Start it with the command Splus and press return. You will see this:

S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996 

 Lancaster Uni 
 Statistics Section

 S-plus is ready.
  Linking to local library routines... 
local library attached 

 This is Splus Version 3.4
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Please report problems with Splus 3.4 to Barry
Working data will be in .Data 
>

The system is now waiting for you to type something - the > sign is the prompt.

...and Stopping

To quit from Splus, type q() - this seems a bit of an odd `quit' command at first, but there is a logic to it...

Simple Arithmetic...