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MMaechler
Zurich, Switzerland
Mathematician, Statistician, R Expert, Free Software enthousiast, Follower of Jesus
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I'm really grateful for the update with the original S-news announcement of Ross! Thanks to SK and David Smith.
This has been a piece missing in our collection and that e-mail did get me on board after having pleaded for R to adopt the GPL.
Martin Maechler (R co-developer since ~ 1994/95)
An Updated History of R
Here's a refresher on the history of the R project: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka 1993: First binary versions of R published at Statlib [see update, below] 1995: R first distributed as open-source software, under GPL2 licens...
Hmm, I have mixed feelings, too. If what you @David write about MS really were true, I'd be happy; then,
I feel similar to Tim Washburn's(Jan.23, 18:02).
David can you please make clear that this is about Revo, and not about R.
See what others make from the MS blog: "Micrsoft buys Revo ... and R" : http://bit.ly/15EVa2N
Not funny! I hope you can ensure that such misleading info is not spread, but corrected.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich,
and R Core team since its beginning in 1995
Revolution Analytics joins Microsoft
by David Smith, Chief Community Officer On behalf of the entire Revolution Analytics team I am excited to announce that Revolution Analytics is joining forces with Microsoft to bring R to even more enterprises. Microsoft announced today that it will acquire Revolution Analytics. Now, Microsoft ...
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