Today marks 50 years since Rick Becker and John Chambers presented a new project to a few of their colleagues in Statistics and Data Analysis research at Bell Labs. John writes:
It had no name and we were unsure what it was, exactly. A few months later it was named S, initially called an interactive environment. Only a revised version was referred to as a language. (Lately I’ve been labelling it R Version 0.)
A poster by Balasubramanian Narasimhan summarizes 50 years of S and R. You can download the full size poster or open up the image below in a new tab to see it full size.
