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jordigh on June 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?

R's and Octave's story is very different. Essentially one of the key originators of S, John Chambers, started to work on R. That would be like Cleve Moler being a core Octave contributor.

kgwgk on June 28, 2017 [–]

At what point did Chambers became involved in R?

jordigh on June 28, 2017 | [–]

The very beginning. Chambers was involved with the initial design of R.

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