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Intermediate/advanced Programming in S+ (Incorporating the workbench)

Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (1 Day)
Time: 8:30AM - 5:00PM
Price: $550 Commercial, $495 Government, $440 Academic
***10% discount on bookings before 22 February, 2008

Early Bird Price: $495 Commercial, $440 Government, $396 Academic.
All prices include GST

Course Description

Intermediate/advanced programming in S+ course is designed to build on the concepts introduced in Day 1 & bring experienced users of the S-PLUS 7.0, S-PLUS 6.2, and S-PLUS 2000 product lines into this new framework. Top on the list of topics is improving productivity using the S-PLUS 8.0 Workbench & untilizing your S+ code to deploy analytics in S+ Enterprise Server.

Course Outline 

  • Writing functions

  • Debugging and testing functions

  • Creating packages

  • Hints and tips

  • More on deploying Analytics with S+ Enterprise Server

Recommended Prerequisites

We assume that you already know how to write scripts in S-PLUS and call functions from the S-PLUS command line. Furthermore, the course assumes familiarity with the Windows operating system and knowledge of basic data analysis and graphical displays.

Fees include refreshments and course materials.

Bookings: please call 02 9233 6888 or email enquiries@solutionmetrics.com.au

About the Presenter: Peter Shaw holds Bachelors degrees in Physics, and in Earth & Planetary Sciences from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San Diego).

Dr. Shaw was a member of the Scientific Staff at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and subsequently University of Washington, where he has published more than 20 papers on a wide range of data intensive and applied statistical methods.

He is currently a Senior Consultant at Insightful Corporation where he has helped a number of clients across several industries extract valuable knowledge from their data through data mining methods, and has contributed significantly to the Data Mining training course offered by Insightful.