Learning For Everyonea) B
b) C
c) R
d) K
S was initiated in 1976⁷ as an internal statistical analysis environment—originally implemented as Fortran libraries.
a) Early versions of the S language contain functions for statistical modeling
b) The book Programming with Data by John Chambers documents S version of the language
c) In 1993 Bell Labs gave StatSci (later Insightful Corp.) an exclusive license to develop and sell the S language
d) The book Programming with Data by IBM documents S version of the language
Insightful sold its implementation of the S language under the product name S-PLUS.
a) Insightful
b) Amazon
c) IBM
d) TCS
TIBCO is the current owner of the S language and is its exclusive developer.
a) John Hopkins
b) California
c) Harvard
d) Auckland
In 1993 the first announcement of R was made to the public. Ross’s and Robert’s experience developing R is documented in a 1996 paper in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
a) R is a language for data analysis and graphics
b) K is language for statistical modelling and graphics
c) One key limitation of the S language was that it was only available in a commercial package, S-PLUS
d) C is a language for data and graphics
In 1996, a public mailing list was created (the R-help and R-devel lists) and in 1997 the R Core Group was formed, containing some people associated with S and S-PLUS.
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