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Re:Polars by xwowsersx on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:13PM (#38921359)
I feel like the predecessor of R should be Q!
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Re:Polars by p4ul on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:49PM (#38921650)
The way that I've heard the story, S was short for "statistics", and R was chosen because the authors were _R_obert [Gentleman] and _R_oss [Ihaka].

Statisticians are funny!

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