Re: [R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-05 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Ajay ohri wrote: An amusing afterthought : What is a rival software (ahem!) was planting this, hoping for a divide between S and R communities.or at the very minimum hoping for some amusement. an assumption or even a pretense of stealing credit is one of the easiest ways of sparking

Re: [R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
Wacek, If you have bug reports for a contributed package please take them up with the maintainer, not the list. -thomas On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: Ajay ohri wrote: An amusing afterthought : What is a rival software (ahem!) was planting this, hoping for a divide

Re: [R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Difford
, self-contained, reproducible code. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-Origins-of-R-AND-CALCULUS-tp21846099p21847724.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-05 Thread Richard . Cotton
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

Re: [R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Mark Difford wrote: It would have been very easy for Mr. Vance to have written: John M. Chambers, a former Bell Labs researcher who is now a consulting professor of statistics at Stanford University, was an early champion. At Bell Labs, Mr. Chambers had helped develop S, THE PROTOTYPE OF R,

Re: [R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Difford
guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-Origins-of-R-AND-CALCULUS-tp21846099p21849958.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com

[R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-04 Thread Ajay ohri
An amusing afterthought : What is a rival software (ahem!) was planting this, hoping for a divide between S and R communities.or at the very minimum hoping for some amusement. an assumption or even a pretense of stealing credit is one of the easiest ways of sparking intellectual discord Most users

Re: [R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-04 Thread Mark Difford
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