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Gretl was released back in 2000, well before R gained enough traction be become one of the main programming languages for statistical computing.

• michaericalribo 4y ago
  R itself was first released in 1993, and is based on S / S-Plus which date to the 70s...moreover, these have been standard tools since the 80s at least, well before Gretl...
  • goosedragons 4y ago
    The S of the 70s and 80s was a different beast. It was more macro based like SAS. R really didn't start to gain traction until the 2000s.
  • nerdponx 4y ago
    R was considered "just a stats package" until the last 10-15 years.