> On 02 Apr 2017, at 14:53 , Spencer Graves > <spencer.gra...@effectivedefense.org> wrote: > > > > On 2017-04-02 4:10 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: >> Not fooling, no. >> >> However, r-help/r-announce/r-devel was a restructuring of the r-testers >> list. This goes back to March 20, 1996. The first archived post of r-testers >> is >> >> • just a test (the 'archiving' does not yet work) -->> Nr. 2 Martin >> Maechler >> >> so the actual start may have been a few days before. > > > So R was 11 when we celebrated its tenth birthday in Ames, Iowa, August > 8-10, 2007?
No, but the R Core Team was formed in August 1997. The birthdate of R itself is not well-defined. It could be June 1995 (GPL release), August 1993 (Announcement on S-news), or some night at the Black Crow Cafe in Auckland in the early 90's. -pd > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer Graves >> >> ... >> >> Incidentally, looking at the last posts of r-testers, it seems that CRAN >> turned 20 last week: >> >> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:20:35 +0100 >> Message-Id: <199703261520.qaa08...@aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at> >> From: Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@ci.tuwien.ac.at> >> To: r-test...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> >> Subject: R-alpha: ANNOUNCE: CRAN >> >> This is a first (alpha) announcement for the >> >> Comprehensive R Archive Network >> (CRAN) >> >> project. >> ... >> >> >> >> -pd >> >> >> >>> On 02 Apr 2017, at 08:17 , John <j...@surewest.net> wrote: >>> >>> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
