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Today, its been 20 years since Martin Mächler started the R-help community list. The first post was written by Ross Ihaka on 1997-04-01:Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
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| Screenshot of the very first post to the R-help mailing list. |
“(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!
PS. This is a blog version of my R-help post with the same content.
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