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...early look at the software considered it rough around the edges. But despite its shortcomings, R immediately gained a following with people who saw the possibilities in customizing the free software. John M. Chambers, a former Bell Labs researcher who is now a consulting professor of statistics at StanfordUniversity, was an early champion. At Bell Labs, Mr. Chambers had helped develop S, another statistics software project, which was meant to give researchers of all stripes an accessible data analysis tool. It was, however, not an open-source project. The software failed to generate broad interest and ultimat...