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> Most of R's quirks stem from the authors' desire to keep it as compatible with S as possible. On the other hand, if it was not for that compatibility with S
by kgwgk 8y ago
> Most of R's quirks stem from the authors' desire to keep it as compatible with S as possible.
On the other hand, if it was not for that compatibility with S we would not be having this conversation: R would be just a footnote in the history of statistical computing like Lisp-Stat.
- disgruntledphd2 8y agoExactly! I probably didn't make the trade-offs clear in my original post. I believe that the massive price increases in S-plus licensing may have driven lots of people to start using R, which would definitely not have happened without the S-compatibility.