15th (SP1) edition new features

The 15th (SP1) edition of GenStat includes many new features and enhancements including:

GenStat Server upgraded to Release 15.1

Release 15.1 includes 5 new directives, 31 new procedures and 3 new functions.

General

Improved support for pointers with text suffixes in the spreadsheet and SPLOAD directive.
Column format tables so that multiple 2 or more way tables can be displayed in the spreadsheet.

New supported file formats

New compact format for spreadsheet (gsh) files (version 15 format).
Minitab version 14-16 worksheets.
R version 2.15 data frames.
Exporting colours to Excel 2007-2010 (.xlsx) files.
Opening old Excel files (.xls), generated by GenStat, within Excel 2010 will display a warning that can be safely ignored.

Graphics enhancements

Display headers and footers when printing graphs.
Full page printing of graphs using the A4 Portrait/Landscape settings of the areas list in the Frame tab of the graphics menus.

Data manipulation

Table calculate menu.
Table sort menu.
Menus to combine levels and slice tables.
Ability to rearrange the display of tables in the spreadsheet using the convert menu.
New statistical menus and enhancements

Summary statistics

Summary tables and frequency tables menus are able save multiple tables to a single sheet using the new column format spreadsheet tables.

Analysis of variance

New option to display warnings produced by homogeneity, normality and stability tests in the general analysis of variance menu.

Regression

Functional linear relationship menu for fitting a functional linear relationship where both Y and X have errors.

Genetic models

New individual/animal model menu.
New parental model menu.

QTLs (Linkage/Association)

Form kinship matrix menu for creating a kinship matrix of coancestries.

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