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.

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