Frequently Asked Questions About S-Plus
The .First function - what is it and why should you
have one?
You can create a .First function that will run specified
S-Plus commands. For example, your .First function may open a graphics
device, set postscript color options or open frequently used libraries.
For example, a .First function that opens a motif()
window looks like:
.First<-function(){
motif()
}
Using window based help
S-Plus 3.4
Once inside Splus you can start the motif() driver
and then run
help.start().
S-Plus 5
The graphical help interface for S-Plus is run through
netscape. The first thing you will have to do is change the default
browser in your options. At the command prompt, type options(help.browser="/usr/biostatistics/bin/netscape").
Then, when you type help.start(), the
help menu will appear in a netscape window.
Creating Color Postscript plots
To create color postscript plots, you will need to
specify a color scheme using ps.options. for example,
ps.options(colors = ps.colors.rgb[c("black",
"CadetBlue", "LightSeaGreen", "LightSlateBlue", "red", "green", "blue",
"yellow", "khaki", "maroon"), ], background = ps.colors.rgb[c("white"),
])
puts black as the first color, cadet blue as the
second, light sea green as the third, etc., and white as the background.
So, when you use col=5 in a plot command, you will plot in red. To
see what colors are available, check /usr/openwin/lib/rgb.txt.
last updated: 02-04-2000
elizabeth brown