S-PLUS is a statistical analysis tool, it is the commercial version of the S language from AT&T. 2 History After researchers from AT&T invented the S statistcal analysis language in the late 1970's, there was a huge enthusiasm towards this emerging statistical tool. Seeing its great success and market potential, a professer from Univesity of Washington at Seattle named Dr. Doug Martin started a company called Statistical Sciences Inc in 1987, with an exclusive license from AT&T to commercially develop the S language.[HISTORY], thus S-PLUS was born. Later, Statistical Sciences was sold to MathSoft, and later MathSoft was renamed to Insightful. Now, S-Plus is maintained and marketed by Insightful Inc Comments References[HISTORY] http://www.insightful.com/DocumentsLive/22/26/splus6.pdf
After researchers from AT&T invented the S statistcal analysis language in the late 1970's, there was a huge enthusiasm towards this emerging statistical tool. Seeing its great success and market potential, a professer from Univesity of Washington at Seattle named Dr. Doug Martin started a company called Statistical Sciences Inc in 1987, with an exclusive license from AT&T to commercially develop the S language.[HISTORY], thus S-PLUS was born. Later, Statistical Sciences was sold to MathSoft, and later MathSoft was renamed to Insightful. Now, S-Plus is maintained and marketed by Insightful Inc
References[HISTORY] http://www.insightful.com/DocumentsLive/22/26/splus6.pdf
