Design library

I'm a PhD student in Edinburgh University and interested in survival 
analysis. By chance, I found design library in Splus software. I have 

if yes, how can I find a book to introduce with these concepts?
would you please introduce me some references?
best wishes

In R there is a pcakge called survival.
library("surival")
?survfit

A nice introduction to this package is in Dalgaard
"Introductory statistics in R"

best wishes
ido