On 2017-04-02 8:42 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
On 02 Apr 2017, at 14:53 , Spencer Graves <[email protected]>
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.
The Wikipedia article on "S (programming language)" said it first
appeared in 1976 for the GCOS operating system. "In late 1979, S was
ported from GCOS to UNIX, which would become the new primary platform."
I remember using S or S-PLUS in the late 1980s, when it was only
available for UNIX. In the early 1990s, I got S-PLUS for Windows. I'm
pretty sure S-PLUS was NOT available for Macs in the late 1990s.
Spencer Graves
-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: <[email protected]>
From: Kurt Hornik <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:19:07 -0700
Henrik Bengtsson <[email protected]> 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?
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