The Origins of R AND CALCULUS
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 intellectual discord Most users of softwares don't really care about who gets credit ( Who wrote Windows Vista ,or Mac OS or Ubuntu Linux), and the NYT is a newspaper not a journal. Does any student, or teacher for that matter care whether Newton or Leibntiz invented calculas.
supposed to be funny? type citation() in r, you'll read:
"We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R, please cite it
when using it for data analysis. See also ?citation("pkgname")? for
citing R packages."
why care whether newton or leibnitz invented calculus? why care who has
invested a lot of time and effort in this or that?
vQ