[Rd] Source code of early S versions

[Achim Zeileis]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, peter dalgaard wrote:

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>> On 29 Feb 2016, at 19:54 , Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> PS:  somehow "historical" would be less unnerving than "archeological"
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>> At least I didn't say palaeontological.
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> So John should feel more like stone age than dinosaur?
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> (Some portion of this must be a fortune candidate!)

:-) Unless anyone objects:

R> fortune(373)

Barry Rowlingson: I've been unable to locate any version of S online. Does
anyone have a copy, somewhere, rusting away on an old hard disk or slowly
flaking off a tape? [...] Obviously this would be for archaeological 
purposes.
John Chambers: [...] somehow "historical" would be less unnerving than
"archeological".
Barry Rowlingson: At least I didn't say palaeontological.
    -- Barry Rowlingson and John Chambers (on the availability of the
       source code for early versions of S)
       R-devel (February 2016)


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