On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Robert Wilkins <irishhacker@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.
>

Colleagues of mine did contact Ashlee Vance after his article was published
and learned that his original text was shortened by the NYT section editors,
and so many details didn't make it to the print edition.  But he has
published a followup on the NYT's website clarifying and expanding a number
of details here:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/

You can also provide comments on his article there too, if you like.

# David Smith

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Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com
Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA)

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