https://blog.r-project.org/categories/history/ Recent content in History on The R Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s-at-50/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s-at-50/ Today marks 50 years since Rick Becker and John Chambers presented a new project to a few of their colleagues in Statistics and Data Analysis research at Bell Labs. John writes: It had no name and we were unsure what it was, exactly. A few months later it was named S, initially called an interactive environment. Only a revised version was referred to as a language. (Lately I’ve been labelling it R Version 0.