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Message-ID: <3A51F563.AC231802@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2001-01-02T15:36:03Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Transporting s-plus routines to R

> lhomer wrote:
> 
> I have used S-Plus for Windows for some time and have a large
> collection of personal programs. I have recently installed R-1.1.1
> under Linux. I can read the .ssc files from S-Plus into emacs and save
> to R, but this is apt to be tedious. Any shortcuts to recommend? 

Yes. If all functions used within the *.ssc files are well known by R,
simply rename the files to *.r.

> Will linux R read the _Data files from Windows S-Plus? 

There is a function in the package Rstreams (available at CRAN), which
reads some binary S-Plus files.

> Would Windows R serve as a useful intermediate transfer?

The above mentioned methods work also on Linux.

Uwe Ligges
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