R would have truly arrived if the Wall Street Journal mentions it as an
alternative to SAS or Excel...but that is some years away...
Ajay

www.decisionstats.com

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:28 AM, 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.
>
> 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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