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Re:Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebo... by kryptiskt on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:42AM (#18344583)
I think it's likely R was inspired more by Mathematica's venerable notebook interface.
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Re:Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebo... by klmr on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:58AM (#18344659)
It was obviously inspired by many different things but the most direct genealogy is WEB [1] → noweb → Sweave → Knitr → R Markdown → R Notebooks.

Mathematica’s notebook interface in turn was almost certainly also inspired (directly or indirectly) by WEB, given that this was the first literate programming tool ever created.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB

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