Today, it is been 20 years since Martin Mächler started the R-help community list (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/). The first post was written by Ross Ihaka on 1997-04-01:
Subject: R-alpha: R-testers: pmin heisenbug From: Ross Ihaka <ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz> When: Tue Apr 1 10:35:48 CEST 1997 Archive: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/1997-April/001488.html This is a post about R's memory model. We're talking R v0.50 beta. I think that the paragraph at the end provides a nice anecdote on the importance not to be overwhelmed by problems ahead: "(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! Henrik ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.