> Does any student, or teacher for that matter care whether Newton or Leibntiz > invented calculas.
Students or teachers may not care, but Newton and Leibniz themselves were pretty bitter about who should get credit for what. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_v._Leibniz_calculus_controversy I think this whole debate has gotten rather silly. The original article was targetted at non-techies, and provided at reasonable summary of what R does for that audience. The followup clarified on the history of R. As for Ashley Vance's journalism, well, he's more qualified to write about software than most, being the former editor of The Register. Hopefully, this storm-in-a-teacup will blow over soon. Regards, Richie. Mathematical Sciences Unit HSL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ATTENTION: This message contains privileged and confidential inform...{{dropped:20}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.