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2009 Feb 03
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The Origins of R
...Getting the attributions "right" is difficult. Even if "right" according to common conventions (and one can argue as to just what the conventions are, especially in the matter of computer language development), they are unlikely to be totally fair. Stigler's Law of Eponomy has wide sway! In the preface to the first and second edition of "Data Analysis and Graphics Using R", we have: "The R system implements a dialect of the S language that was developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories by Rick Becker, John Chambers and Allan Wilks". The only 1...