Message-ID: <498AA21D.3030208@idi.ntnu.no>
Date: 2009-02-05T08:23:57Z
From: Wacek Kusnierczyk
Subject: The Origins of R AND CALCULUS
In-Reply-To: <4bc14e460902042245t6c9aac37w8043d74d0f015716@mail.gmail.com>
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