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

[stephen sefick]

It has worked wonders for me over the last years.  It clunkily and
reliably delivers messages to my inbox that are either someone elses
question about R or an answer to one of my questions.
clunkily yours

Stephen Sefick

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Robert Wilkins <irishhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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-- 
Stephen Sefick

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

								-K. Mullis