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S-PLUS

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S-PLUS was a commercial statistical programming environment sold by TIBCO Software Inc., built as an implementation of the S programming language originally developed at Bell Labs. Introduced by Statistical Sciences, Inc. in 1988, S-PLUS added object-oriented programming facilities on top of S's core language along with a large library of analytical algorithms, and became a standard tool among statisticians and econometricians; its FinMetrics package was built specifically for econometric time series analysis. As the open-source R language, itself descended from S, grew in adoption, TIBCO responded by releasing the TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R as an alternative R interpreter for Windows and Unix systems. S-PLUS itself was proprietary software, with its last stable release, version 8.2, issued in November 2010.

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Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
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1988 1
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1. S-PLUS (Wikipedia)
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    Proprietary
  • Historical timeline
    Source: In 1988, S-PLUS was first developed and released by a Seattle-based start-up company called Statistical Sciences, Inc.
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
    S-PLUS was a commercial implementation of the S programming language sold by TIBCO Software Inc.
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