While writing his '98 Interface paper Ross Ihaka was asking about the
history of S so he could relate it to the history of R. I was looking
at the Statistics and Information Analysis Division's web page at Bell
Labs and went to their technical reports section
http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/doc/
Sure enough, there is a tech report by Rick Becker on "A Brief History
of S". There is no date on it but it refers to the 1994 edition of
Venables and Ripley so it must be post-1994.
I also found it interesting to check Duncan Temple Lang's web page
http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/duncan/
Many of his interests are shared by R developers.
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Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Statistics Department 608/262-2598
University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
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