Re: xls

Dear XLSers:

I continue to use  XLS every day, many hours a day, as I have for 12
years... I find it a truly wonderful and exciting language for developing
statistical applications.  ViSta 7.5 will be available shortly, and you
can see what can be done with XLS.  ViSta supports plugins, so you can
add your XLS code to it and take advantage of ViSta's point-and-shoot
interface and its data manipulation capabilities.

The main drawback is, as others have mentioned, that one can only
analyze  relatively small data. It would really benefit from a hack on
the code to speed  it up.

We (my colleagues Pedro Valero, Gabriel Molina and Michael Friendly,
and I) are writing a book called "Seeing Your Data". It presents  visual
exploratory and confirmatory data analysis., emphasizing visualization as
an approach to statistical analysis. It uses ViSta throughout,  but does not

focus on "how to" with ViSta.  It is about half written.

I will be in Spain from October through March or April, and would love to
attend a conference.  I will be in Valencia, so it would be very
convenient for me to have Pedro organize the conference and hold it in
Valencia.  I expect that turnout would be relatively small, and suggest
that we have a format that provides, lets say, four 2-hour presentations
a day, for at least 3 days.

Of course, Provence is not far away, and that, or any other part of France
would be great too!

A modular XLS would be great... I think it is also important to update
the inter-process communication capabilities, and to make the multi-pane
windows that I have had implemented for Windows available under the
other systems, and Objective C would be super too... and to do all that in a

portable way that works on Unix and Macs (have you tried a Mac lately?
they are wonderful!)...

Forrest

Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> I am still here, I still love Lisp, but unfortunately she never returns
> my calls.
>
> As for Steve's projects, yes (!!), Objective C is obviously the way to
> go for me too. But learning curves get steeper and time gets shorter
> when one is getting older.
>
> By the way, the xlispstat.org domain name is on the market again,
> so if somebody is interested ...
>
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> Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical
> Software
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