https://www.jottr.org/tags/history/ Recent content in history on JottR Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jottr.org/2017/04/01/history-r-help-20-years/ Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jottr.org/2017/04/01/history-r-help-20-years/ Today, its been 20 years since Martin Mächler started the R-help community list. The first post was written by Ross Ihaka on 1997-04-01: Screenshot of the very first post to the R-help mailing list. This is a post about R’s memory model. We’re talking R v0.50 beta. I think that the paragraph at the end provides a nice anecdote on the importance not to be overwhelmed by problems ahead: ”(The consumption of one cell per string is perhaps the major memory problem in R - we didn’t design it with large problems in mind. https://www.jottr.org/2013/04/01/history-r-help/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jottr.org/2013/04/01/history-r-help/ Today it’s 16 years ago and 367,496 messages later since Martin Mächler started the R-help (321,119 msgs), R-devel (45,830 msgs) and R-announce (547 msgs) mailing lists [1] - a great benefit to all of us. Special thanks to Martin and also thanks to everyone else contributing to these forums. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/1997-April/001490.html