S-Plus Library DVBID (dvbidlib.zip)

This file accompanies the S-Plus (copyright by Mathsoft, Inc.) library 
DVBID written by

Brad Biggerstaff 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
P.O. Box 2087 
Fort Collins, CO 80522-2087
U.S.A.
(970) 221-6473  // bkb5@cdc.gov

The library is only configured to run on Windows machines with
S-Plus 4.5 and greater (so including S-Plus 2000).  To unpack the
library, unzip the contents of the file dvbidlib.zip to the 
library subdirectory under the S-Plus system files (for example, 
c:\splus45\library or c:\sp2000\library).

Upon putting the library in the proper place, load the library from
within S-Plus using either the File/load library menu or with
library(dvbid) in the commands window to make the functions
accessible within S-Plus.  As always, see the S-Plus manuals for
details. 

To use the menus, once the library has been loaded, execute
addDVBIDmenus() in the commands window.  This only needs to be done
once, as the menus will be stored in the _Prefs directory for later
sessions.  If you wish to remove the DVBID menus, the function
removeDVBIDmenus(), also executed from the commands window, will
achieve this.  If you have trouble getting this to work, you might
need to ensure you have write permission to the dvbid and
dvbid\_data directories.  

NOTE: several of the functions in the DVBID library REQUIRE
functions in Frank Harrell's Hmisc library, which you may obtain
from statlib (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DOS/S/Harrell/) or from his
site directly (http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/index.html).
Load the Hmisc library according to the instructions and MAKE
SURE the library is loaded whenever DVBID is loaded.

The dvbidlib.zip file was created with PKZIP for Windows 32 bit
SHAREWARE Version 2.50.

The Windows help file dvbid.hlp was created with the help of Brian
Ripley's Perl script nr2hlp, the Microsoft Help Compiler Version
3.10.505 referred to in the HowTo file of spwinhlp, and the
ActiveState version of Perl also noted there.  See the
spwinhlp directory in statlib for details
(http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DOS/S/SWin/).

This software is provided freely and may be distributed free of
charge.  Though the routines are believed to be accurate, they are
provided WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, and results from use of its 
contents are solely the responsibility of the user.

This library was created while the author was an employee of the
government of the United States of America and is therefore without
copyright.  No product endorsement should be construed by the
existence of this library. 

Questions about, corrections to, and suggestions for the library
may be directed to the author via the contact information provided
above.