On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:19:07 -0700 Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Today, it is been 20 years since Martin Mächler started the R-help > community list (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/). The first > post was written by Ross Ihaka on 1997-04-01: > > Subject: R-alpha: R-testers: pmin heisenbug > From: Ross Ihaka <ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz> > When: Tue Apr 1 10:35:48 CEST 1997 > Archive: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/1997-April/001488.html > > This is a post about R's memory model. We're talking R v0.50 beta. I > think that the paragraph at the end provides a nice anecdote on the > importance not to be overwhelmed by problems ahead: > > "(The consumption of one cell per string is perhaps the major > memory problem in R - we didn't design it with large problems in mind. > It is probably fixable, but it will mean a lot of work)." > > We all know the story; an endless number of hours has been put in by > many contributors throughout the years, making The R Project and its > community the great experience it is today. > > Thank you! > > Henrik > No fooling? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
