What’s New in S-PLUS 8.2

Develop, Scale and Deploy more easily with S-PLUS 8.2.

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Highlights of S+ 8.2

Scaling to solve larger analytic problems

• Support for Windows 64-bit platforms: S+ now supports 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, taking advantage of the latest hardware to quickly perform large analyses entirely in memory. 64-bit support also improves the performance of very large analyses that leverage the S+ Big Data Library by enabling larger chunks of data to be handled in each pass through the data.
• Much faster matrix operations for higher overall performance: Matrix operations which underlie many common statistical methods are much faster in S+ 8.2 than in previous versions—up to 40x faster based on initial customer feedback. 
• Optimize use of cluster resources: The new Statistics Services view in the S+ Workbench provides a way of monitor the allocation and status of your S+ and R analytic jobs run through Statistics Services. This helps utilize the resources of your cluster or grid as efficiently as possible.

Easier, More Secure Deployment

• New Statistics Services View in S+ Workbench: S+ 8.1 introduced the ability to submit computationally-intensive scripts to a server. This release provides the ability to track and manage those jobs directly from within the S+ Workbench. The new Statistics Services View also lets you deploy packages and data files easily and securely to a server from the S+ Workbench. 
• Enhanced Integration: Continuing our focus on combining the statistical power of S+ and R with the interactive visualization and application deployment capabilities, this release enables you to read and write binary and text files directly, helping to preserve important metadata when moving between the applications. 
• Updated S+ Workbench: The S+ Workbench, our modern Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing and debugging S+ code, has been updated to the latest version of the Eclipse framework to provide a seamless user experience between multiple platforms (Unix, Linux, and 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows)

Focus on Customer Feedback

• Quality and Usability Enhancements: Based on many customer requests, this release provides numerous improvements, including data access enhancements (such as the ability to import from specific sheets in an Excel workbook), improved consistency of colors and shapes between graphics devices, and updated Connect/C++ examples for use with Visual Studio 2008.
• Support for Windows 7: Reflecting requests from many of our users, S+ now supports Windows 7. 
• Enhanced R Compatibility: This version includes new functions (and new arguments to existing functions) to improve compatibility with R, making it easier to migrate packages from R to S+ and simplifying writing scripts compatible with both S+ and R.