On Dec 26, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Greg Snow wrote: > > I realized earlier this year (2007) that it was in 1987 that I first > started using an early version of S (it was ported to VMS and was > called > success). That means that I have been using some variant of S (to > various degrees) for over 20 years now (I don't feel that old). >
Boxing day somehow seems appropriate for this thread. R.I.P. to all those old boxes of yesteryore and the software that ran on them -- and yet there is always a residual archaeological curiosity. I discovered recently that the MIT athena network contains a circa 1989 version of S: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/Sdev/S/ which made me wonder whether there was any likelihood that one could recreate "S Thu Dec 7 16:49:47 EST 1989". Curiosity is one thing, time to dig through the layers of ancient civilizations is quite another. But if anyone would like to offer a (preferably educated) guess about the feasibility of such a project, like I said, I would be curious. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
