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2000 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Introduction

Authors : W. N. Venables, B. D. Ripley

Published in: S Programming

Publisher: Springer New York

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is a language for “programming with data”, in the words of the title of Chambers (1998). John Chambers of Bell Labs (formerly part of AT&T, currently part of Lucent Technologies) has been its principal designer over more than two decades, and was awarded the prestigious 1998

Association for Computing Machinery

Award for Software Systems for, in the words of the citation,

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system, which has forever altered how people analyze, visualize, and manipulate data.

For the last decade it has been the major vehicle for the delivery of new statistical methodology to end users.

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