S (programming language)

S
ParadigmMulti-paradigm: imperative, object oriented
DeveloperRick Becker, Allan Wilks, John Chambers, William S. Cleveland, Trevor Hastie
First appeared1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Typing disciplinedynamic, strong
Licensedepends on implementation
Websiteect.bell-labs.com/sl/S/ at the Wayback Machine (archived 2018-10-14)
Major implementations
S-PLUS
Influenced by
C, APL, PPL, Fortran
Influenced
R

S[1] is a statistical programming language developed primarily by John Chambers and (in earlier versions) Rick Becker, Trevor Hastie, William Cleveland and Allan Wilks of Bell Laboratories. The aim of the language, as expressed by John Chambers, is "to turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully".[1] It is widely used by academic researchers.[2]

A major implementation of S is S-PLUS, a commercial product that was formerly sold by TIBCO Software.

The modern R, a part of the GNU free software project, was based on S[3] and can run many S programs, although it is not fully backwards compatible.[4]

  1. ^ a b Chambers, John M (1998). Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-98503-9.
  2. ^ "S-Plus: An Introduction". www.stat.rice.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  3. ^ Ashwani, Kumar; Satyanarayana, Reddy, Seelam Sai (2020-09-25). Advancements in Security and Privacy Initiatives for Multimedia Images. IGI Global. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-7998-2797-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Nicholls, Andy; Pugh, Richard; Gott, Aimee (2015-12-16). R in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself. Sams Publishing. ISBN 978-0-13-428880-2.