r/bioconductor workshop session i – surviving in r
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R/Bioconductor Workshop Session I – Surviving in R. March/April 2007. Julian Lee National Cancer Center. Bob Sneed Sun Microsystems. History of R. Ross Ihaka, Statistics Department, University of Auckland. Robert Gentleman, Program Head Computational Biology FHCR. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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