r/bioconductor workshop session i – surviving in r

R/Bioconductor WorkshopSession I – Surviving in R

March/April 2007

Julian Lee

National Cancer Center

Bob Sneed

Sun Microsystems

History of R

“Robert Gentleman and I became colleagues at The University of Auckland. We both had an interest in statistical computing and saw a

common need for a better software environment in our Macintosh teaching laboratory. We saw no suitable commercial environment

and we began to experiment to see what might be involved in developing one ourselves.” – Ross Ihaka

Ross Ihaka, Statistics Department, University of

Auckland

Robert Gentleman, Program Head Computational

Biology FHCR

Making it free Martin Mächler, ETH

Zurich convinced the duo to make it free

Source code made available, GNU general license, June 1995

And the rest is history!

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