The Untold Story of R

Try CodeRabbit.ai & Cut Code Review Time & Bugs in Half - https://coderabbit.link/codesource The whole thing started because two professors in Auckland, New Zealand couldn’t afford the software they needed to teach an undergraduate statistics class. They decided to build their own. They named it after their own initials — as a joke. Neither of them ever made a cent from it. One of them eventually called his own creation a failure. The other left academia for Silicon Valley. And the language they built? It’s now used by over two million people and has sparked one of the most vicious community wars in all of programming. This is the untold story of R. 00:00 The Chart That Changed the World 02:30 Before R, There Was S 05:00 The Corridor Joke 07:30 The People Who Never Cashed In 10:00 The Hadley Wickham Revolution 12:30 Still Not Dead