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"How Did a Statistical Programming Language Invented in New Zealand Become a Global Sensation?". Hmm, slightly condescending title—though I had no idea that it

"How Did a Statistical Programming Language Invented in New Zealand Become a Global Sensation?". Hmm, slightly condescending title—though I had no idea that it was invented by two academics at the University of Auckland (not "Aukland"!)

sonabinu 14y ago
Check this out http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-comput...
dagw 14y ago
Is "invented" really the correct word, given that R started its life as a straight up Open Source re-implementation of the S language.
randomsearch 14y ago
Indeed. Is the language the second most famous scientific 'R' from NZ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford