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The S language is both an interactive language and a language for adding new functions to the S-PLUS system. It is a complete programming language with control structures, recursion and a useful variety of data types. The S-PLUS environment provides many functions to handle standard operations, but most users need occasionally to write new functions, a topic we discuss in detail in the companion volume. In this chapter we discuss language ideas that will be seen in system functions.
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Venables, W.N., Ripley, B.D. (1999). Programming in S. In: Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3121-7_4
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