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The History of R (updated for 2020) from Revolutions

Matthew Emerick

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27 Jul 2020

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As an update to this post, here's a list of the major events in R history since its creation:

1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka
1993: First binary versions of R published at Statlib
1995: R first distributed as open-source software, under GPL2 license
1997: R core group formed
1997: CRAN founded (by Kurt Hornik and Fritz Leisch)
1999: The R website, r-project.org, founded
1999: First in-person meeting of R Core team, at inaugural Directions in Statistical Computing conference, Vienna
2000: R 1.0.0 released (February 29)
2000: John Chambers, recipient of the 1998 ACM Software Systems Award for the S language, joins R Core
2001: R News founded (later to become the R Journal)
2003: R Foundation founded
2004: First UseR! conference (in Vienna)
2004: R 2.0.0 released
2009: First edition of the R Journal
2013: R 3.0.0 released
2015: R Consortium founded, with R Foundation participation
2016: New R logo adopted
2017: CRAN exceeds 10,000 published packages
2020: R 4.0.0 released

The presentation below (slides available here) also covers the history of R through 2020.

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