The R-help community was started on this day 20 years ago

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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:

Subject: R-alpha: R-testers: pmin heisenbug From: Ross Ihaka <ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz> When: Tue Apr 1 10:35:48 CEST 1997″ border=”0″ height=”307″ src=”https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BV8fdOy36ak/WN_v7XlWZnI/AAAAAAABV7A/sKgAG-fi04QYOKOAptk0FlKG8ImhE7UPgCLcB/s400/r-help_first_post.png” title=”Screen shot of the very first R-help post” width=”400″ /></a></td></tr><tr><td class=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. It is probably fixable, but it will mean a lot of work).”
We all know the story; an endless number of hours has been put in by many contributors throughout the years, making The R Project and its community the great experience it is today.

Thank you!

PS. This is a blog version of my R-help post with the same content.

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