[R] new user

[Roger Peng]

If you're curious, you should read the brief history in 

Ihaka, R. and Gentleman, R. (1996)  "R:  A language for data analysis and
graphics."  Journal of Computational Graphics and Statistics, 5 (3)
299-314.  

It's very interersting!

-roger
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Paolo Covelli wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a beginner of R.
> I find it absoluty fantastic, flexible and very extensible.
> For the moment only a curiosity.. Why the name R? (are they perhaps the
> initials of Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka?, or is the name correlated with
> S language?)
> Sorry for my poor question but I am very curious
> 
> Thank in advance
> Paolo C.
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