This "Readme" file is contained in a folder "safd" which you downloaded
in zip format. This directory contains the code of the S-Plus functions 
and the datasets used in the book 

R.A. Carmona (2004) `Statistical Analysis of financial Data in S-Plus' 
     New York: Springer.

This directory contains folders ".Data" and ".Prefs" needed by S-Plus.
It also contains two text files "safd.code.ssc" and "safd.data.ssc" containing
the S-Plus code and the data sets used in the text. These are S-Plus script files
which you can run from within S-Plus, without having to load the library. The best
way to access all these goodies from within S-Plus is to run the script "Install.ssc".
The folder "BookData" contains the data sets used in the problems found at the 
end of each chapter.
The directory also contains the dll "KERDLL" needed for kernel regression.


To use the library, make sure that a folder "safd" is created when you unzip
the archive. Make a copy of this folder in the "library" subfolder of the home 
directory of S-Plus, very likely the directory "c:\Program Files\Insightful\Splus 6.1" 


Updated versions of the library will be made available for download from 

       http://www.princeton.edu/~rcarmona/downloads

If you have any problem installing and/or using this library, please
contact me at 

			rcarmona@princeton.edu

