[R] AT&T Researchers and the New York Times

[Robert Wilkins]

Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New
York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift
to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent
AT&T researchers from an earlier generation? It would be the
appropriate thing to do.

The R team did not develop the user interface for R, the designers of
the S programming language did. The layman reader of Vance's article
will get the impression that R is a brand new invention, which is
misleading and unfair. Gentleman and Ihaka should try harder to give
credit where credit is due.


And by the way, ARE YOU GUYS EVER GOING TO FIX your mailing list
platform? It is extremely user-unfriendly and a technological clunk.
The mailing lists for SAS, Python , and others (UseNet) may not be a
user-interface-work-of-genius, but they are far superior to the R
mailing list. What a clunk.