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Was R named as such because it's one letter before S (and therefore a regression?).
by api_or_ipa 10y ago
Was R named as such because it's one letter before S (and therefore a regression?).
- huac 10y ago"The name is partly based on the (first) names of the first two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka), and partly a play on the name of the Bell Labs language ‘S’." - R FAQ https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-named-R_003f https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-named...
- madcaptenor 10y agoI've also heard (uninformed) people speculate that it's called R because r is the standard notation for a correlation coefficient.