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- From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
- Subject: statistics for NeXT: summary
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.183011.18661@lsa.umich.edu>
- Keywords: statistics
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- Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
- Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:30:11 GMT
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-
- This is a summary of information about statistics packages for
- the NeXT computer. Send corrections, addition, etc. to
- Hal.Varian@umich.edu and I will update.
-
- Commercial
- ----------
-
- S -- ATT Software. This is the New S. Doesn't have interactive
- graphics; just dump to PostScript files and read with Preview.
- At one time cost was $800 for source code, $10 per cpu license
- fee, but they seem to change their policy every week or so.
-
- S-plus -- requires X windows. Contact mktg@statsci.com
- 206-283-8802
-
- SAS -- Cost about the same as PC version. Works well, but does
- not conform to NeXTstep user interface.
-
- Shazam -- Uses gnuplot for graphics. Contact Kenneth White,
- <ken@unixg.ubc.ca>, for details. Price is about $400, site
- licenses available.
-
- SST -- runs on NeXT, no graphics. Contact jad@lear.caltech.edu,
- for details. Price is about $800, site licenses available.
-
- TSP -- Contact 415-326-1927.
-
- Free
- -----
-
- |STAT -- a collection of Unix filters for statistics. Available
- via anonymous ftp in pub/stat at ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu
- (128.146.8.52) This is free software, but he doesn't want it
- distributed on bulletin boards, etc. ftp the crypted version
- and send email to Gary Perlman <perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu> to
- get the password.
-
- xlispstat -- Object oriented successor to S. Very impressive.
- Anonymous ftp source code and documentation from
- umnstat.stat.umn.edu. Can be compiled for "generic unix" or for
- X windows.
-
- Generic unix. This way you have all the computational tools,
- but onlyminimal graphics capability. In order to compile this
- version, change the GRAPHSYS flag from X11WINDOWS to GNUPLOT in
- the Makefile.
-
- In the generic version, xlispstat produces Tektronics output for
- a few simple types of plots. You can cut and paste this output
- into a file and run it through ps4014 to view the output on the
- NeXT. To do this, use the ps4014 emulator in the extended
- distribution:
- ps4014 -R -S 7 < infile.tek > outfile.ps
- The resulting ps file can be viewed using Preview. You can also
- run it through Darcy Brockbank's program ps2eps and produce an
- eps file that can inserted into documents, etc.
-
- X Windows. This gives you access to the many graphics tools,
- including spinplots, scatterplots, histograms, box plots, etc.
-
- Make the following changes to the modifiable part of the
- Makefile will compile xlispstat using co-Xist libraries for X
- Windows. It assumes that you have installed co-Xist and
- xlispstat in the default location. I'm told that it also
- compiles with mouseX, but haven't checked this myself.
-
- cut here----------------------------------
- #Makefile for xlispstat
- #Minor modifications by Hal Varian (HRV) for NeXT
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
- # Directories
- # XLISPLIB is where the xlisp executable, the .lsp files to be
- loaded on
- # startup and the examples are to be kept.
- # BINDIR is where the xlispstat shell script is to be put.
- #
- # NOTE: if XLISPLIB is not empty it MUST end with a /
-
- XLISPLIB=/usr/local/lib/xlispstat/
- BINDIR=/usr/local/bin
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
- ################################################################
- ##############
- # HRV: Graphics system. Uncomment one of the following choices:
- # HRV: use GNUPLOT if you don't have Xwindows
-
- #GRAPHSYS = GNUPLOT
- #GRAPHSYS = SUNVIEW
- GRAPHSYS = X11WINDOWS
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
- ################################################################
- ##############
- # Sun Operating System Version. Only used for SUNVIEW graphics
- system.
- # Use SUN3X for sun OS 3.X and SUN4X for sun OS 4.X under
- SunView;
-
- #SUNOS = SUN3X
- #SUNOS = SUN4X
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
- ################################################################
- ##############
- # User Compiler Flags
- # Add a -I directive if the X11 include files are not in a
- standard place
- # For Sun's OpenLook, for example, add -I/usr/openwin/include
-
- #UCFLAGS = -O -f68881
- #ULDFLAGS = -f68881
- #HRV: eliminate 68881 option; add= -D flag to avoid link
- conflict
- UCFLAGS = -O -v -Draise=rraise
- ULDFLAGS =
-
- CC=cc
- LD=ld
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
- ################################################################
- ##############
- # Foreign function call flag. If this flag is defined you should
- also
- # define a machine chosen from one of the directories in the
- machines
- # directory. Look at the README file in the machine directory
- for your
- # machine - you may have to add some additional compiler or ld
- flags
- # to make dynamic loading work.
- #
- # If you do not want to use foreign function calling define the
- machine
- # as `generic'
-
- #FOREIGN_FLAG = -DFOREIGNCALL
- #MACHINE = sun3
- #HRV: use generic machine
- MACHINE = generic
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
- ################################################################
- ##############
- # Additional libraries and files to load at compile time
-
- EXTRALIBS=
- EXTRAOBJS=
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
- ################################################################
- ##############
- # Directory to search for X11 libraries (libX11.a, etc.)
-
- #HRV: this is where co-Xist puts the X11 libraries
- X11LIBDIR=/usr/include/X11
-
- ################################################################
- ##############
-
- [rest of makefile is the same]
-
- ---
- Hal.Varian@umich.edu Hal Varian
- voice: 313-764-2364 Dept of Economics
- fax: 313-764-2364 Univ of Michigan
-