[R] The R-help community list was started on this day 20 years ago

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org
Sun Apr 2 14:53:50 CEST 2017



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
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> 	• 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?


       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.QAA08097 at aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at>
> From: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
> To: r-testers at 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 <jwd at surewest.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:19:07 -0700
>> Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at 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?
>>
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