"Marc Schwartz (via MN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:05 -0500, Jeffrey Horner wrote: > > Forgive me, but since it's Friday and I've been thinking about command > > line options lately, I thought I'd find out who came up with the name of > > the --vanilla argument for R. From the svn log: > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > r2509 | maechler | 1998-10-10 10:52:53 -0500 (Sat, 10 Oct 1998) | 2 lines > > Changed paths: > > M /trunk/src/unix/system.c > > > > new --vanilla > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Are there any interesting anecdotes about this... Did Martin Maechler > > name it? Certainly --plain could have been used instead... > > > > Jeff > > Hey Jeff, > > I suppose that we should be glad that Martin was not eating Ben and > Jerry's at the time or the command line might be: > > R --NewYorkSuperFudgeChunk® > > ;-) > > This reference might be of help: > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=plain-vanilla
It is unclear from my records of R-core mails at the time what the decision process, if any, might have been, but terms like "vanilla S" (AT&T S as opposed to S-PLUS) were being bandied about. The option --vanilla was preceded by constructions like ../bin/R --no-init-file --no-save --no-restore < simple-true.R > simple-true.Rout which was indeed a bit long-winded. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
