R help - Jan 2002 - Using S-Plus Documentation with R

Insightful has some nice docs available for download that are s-plus command
line guides to statistics.  There are two versions, one for S-plus 2000 and
one for S-plus 6.0.  

With regard to syntax, is one a closer match to R than the other?  Are they
based on the same S engines?  Does that matter?  I know there will be
differences in any case, I am just trying to decide wich version I want to
dowload for use with R.

They docs are at:

http://www.insightful.com/support/documentation.asp?DID=1

Brett A. Magill, Evaluation Associate
Research and Program Development
Health, Safety, and Community Services
American Red Cross
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Magill, Brett wrote:
> Insightful has some nice docs available for download that are s-plus
command
> line guides to statistics.  There are two versions, one for S-plus 2000 and
> one for S-plus 6.0.
>
> With regard to syntax, is one a closer match to R than the other?  Are they
> based on the same S engines?  Does that matter?  I know there will be
> differences in any case, I am just trying to decide wich version I want to
> dowload for use with R.
S-PLUS 2000 is based on S3.
S-PLUS 6.0 is based on S4.

R is `not unlike' S3, with some S4 features, so S-PLUS 2000 is probaly
closer.

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