peter dalgaard
2017-Apr-02 09:10 UTC
[R] The R-help community list was started on this day 20 years ago
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. ... 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 M?chler 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 at 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.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
Spencer Graves
2017-Apr-02 12:53 UTC
[R] The R-help community list was started on this day 20 years ago
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? 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 M?chler 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 at 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
2017-Apr-02 13:42 UTC
[R] The R-help community list was started on this day 20 years ago
> On 02 Apr 2017, at 14:53 , Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at 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. -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.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 M?chler 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 at 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 at 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.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com