If S-Plus seems to be hanging or taking too long to execute, you can type to break out of a command. A fresh graphics window will be started. If you can afford it, install more memory. In extreme cases, Splus may hang and it may be necessary to reboot your machine. I do not know whether to blame this on Splus or Windows, but it is clear to me that when taxing the resources of Windows, operation can get a bit flakey.
All files are ascii, unless otherwise noted.
Users should not have to access the files in this folder directly. They should not be edited. These files have a single header line and are suitable for reading in with read.table to make a data frame can be used as input to frame.to.ld to make the life data object directly. For convenience, most of the data sets have already been provided in the form of a .ld life data object or .rd recurrence data object. The echapter files contain, however, numerous examples to illustrate the use of frame.to.ld.