a) Read about it yourself. It is a legal definition.

b) Don't "correct" me with misinformation you are clearly inventing. RStudio 
the software does not "introduce people to a modified version of R." Each user 
has to opt in to that "modified" experience by explicitly installing each of 
the the many CRAN packages that various employees of RStudio have created and 
all of which can (to my knowledge) be used without installing the RStudio IDE 
at all. Yes, a bunch of them can be grabbed at once by installing the tidyverse 
package, but that is also a choice made by users and by instructors struggling 
to deal with students who have a hard time with Excel much less functional 
programming. But RStudio is an R IDE.

There are a lot of packages sponsored by RStudio that I find redundant and 
slow, but portraying the RStudio company or the IDE as inherently "not R" just 
because newbies like the IDE and the packages they sponsor, and who end up 
confusing R with RStudio even though they have to install both, is small-minded 
and biased.

On August 15, 2020 9:10:34 PM PDT, Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:11 PM Jeff Newmiller
><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>  It is a public benefit corporation
>
>Seriously?
>
>On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:11 PM Jeff Newmiller
><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>  used to introduce people to R
>
>Correction, it introduces people to a modified version of R.

-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

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