In 1996, two academics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, launched a new programming language. 25 years later, this language is one of the most widely used in the world. Here's the story of R: #rstats
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Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, in the early 1990s, began discussing how existing statistical software wasn't suited to statistics students. This was because most existing software required students to have studied computer programming.