> On 02 Apr 2017, at 19:15 , Spencer Graves > <spencer.gra...@effectivedefense.org> wrote: > > > > On 2017-04-02 8:42 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: >>> 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. > > > 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.
Did anyone say that it was?? Anyways, as I recall it, part of the genesis of R was exactly that the Auckland computer labs were Mac-based and R&R wanted a mini-S to run on them. -pd > > > 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: <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.
