AT&T Researchers and the New York Times
It has worked wonders for me over the last years. It clunkily and reliably delivers messages to my inbox that are either someone elses question about R or an answer to one of my questions. clunkily yours Stephen Sefick
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Robert Wilkins <irishhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent AT&T researchers from an earlier generation? It would be the appropriate thing to do. The R team did not develop the user interface for R, the designers of the S programming language did. The layman reader of Vance's article will get the impression that R is a brand new invention, which is misleading and unfair. Gentleman and Ihaka should try harder to give credit where credit is due. And by the way, ARE YOU GUYS EVER GOING TO FIX your mailing list platform? It is extremely user-unfriendly and a technological clunk. The mailing lists for SAS, Python , and others (UseNet) may not be a user-interface-work-of-genius, but they are far superior to the R mailing list. What a clunk.
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Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis