S-PLUS is a commercial implementation of the

S programming language S is a statistical programming language developed primarily by John Chambers and (in earlier versions) Rick Becker and Allan Wilks of Bell Laboratories. The aim of the language, as expressed by John Chambers, is "to turn ideas into software, quic ...

sold by TIBCO Software Inc. It features object-oriented programming capabilities and advanced analytical algorithms. Due to the increasing popularity of the open source S successor R, TIBCO Software released th
TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR)
as an alternative R interpreter.

Historical timeline

1988: S-PLUS is first produced by a Seattle-based start-up company called Statistical Sciences, Inc. The founder and sole owner is R. Douglas Martin, professor of statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle. 1993: Statistical Sciences acquires the exclusive license to distribute S and merges with MathSoft, becoming the firm's Data Analysis Products Division (DAPD). 1995: S-PLUS 3.3 for

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/NT. Matrix library, command history, Trellis graphics 1996: S-PLUS 3.4 for UNIX. Trellis graphics, (non-linear mixed effects) library, hexagonal binning, cluster methods. 1997: S-PLUS 4 for Windows. New

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, integration with Excel, editable graphics. 1998: S-PLUS 4.5 for Windows. Scatterplot brushing, create S-PLUS graphs from within Excel &

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. 1998: S-PLUS is available for Linux & Solaris. 1999: S-PLUS 5 for Solaris, Linux,

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, and

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. S-PLUS 2000 for Windows. 3.3,

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charting, new commands for data manipulation. 2000: S-PLUS 6 for

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. Java-based GUI, Graphlets, survival5, missing data library, robust library. 2001: MathSoft sells its Cambridge-based Engineering and Education Products Division (EEPD), changes name to Insightful Corporation, and moves headquarters to Seattle. This move is basically an "Undo" of the previous merger between MathSoft and Statistical Sciences, Inc. 2001: S-PLUS Analytic Server 2.0. S-PLUS 6 for Windows (Excel integration, C++ classes/libraries for connectivity, Graphlets, S version 4, missing data library, robust library). 2002: StatServer 6. Student edition of S-PLUS now free. 2003: S-PLUS 6.2 New reporting, database integration, improved Graphlets, ported to AIX, libraries for correlated data, Bayesian methods, multivariate regressions. 2004: Insightful purchases the S language from

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for $2 million. 2004: S+ArrayAnalyzer 2.0 released. 2005: S-PLUS 7.0 released. BigData library for working with larger-than-memory data sets, S-PLUS Workbench (

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development tool). Insightful Miner 7.0 released. 2007: S-PLUS 8 released. New package system, language extensions for R package compatibility, Workbench debugger. 2008: TIBCO acquires Insightful Corporation for $25 million.TIBCO Completes Acquisition of Insightful Corporation
press release, TIBCO Software Inc., September 3, 2008.

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