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- This is credits.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.5 from
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- The ESS environment is built on the open-source projects of many
- contributors, dating back to 1989 where Doug Bates and Ed Kademan wrote
- S-mode to edit S and Splus files in GNU Emacs. Frank Ritter and Mike
- Meyer added features, creating version 2. Meyer and David Smith made
- further contributions, creating version 3. For version 4, David Smith
- provided significant enhancements to allow for powerful process
- interaction.
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- John Sall wrote GNU Emacs macros for SAS source code around 1990.
- Tom Cook added functions to submit jobs, review listing and log files,
- and produce basic views of a dataset, thus creating a SAS-mode which was
- distributed in 1994.
-
- In 1994, A.J. Rossini extended S-mode to support XEmacs. Together
- with extensions written by Martin Maechler, this became version 4.7 and
- supported S, Splus, and R. In 1995, Rossini extended SAS-mode to work
- with XEmacs.
-
- In 1997, Rossini merged S-mode and SAS-mode into a single Emacs
- package for statistical programming; the product of this marriage was
- called ESS version 5. Richard M. Heiberger designed the inferior mode
- for interactive SAS and SAS-mode was further integrated into ESS. Thomas
- Lumley's Stata mode, written around 1996, was also folded into ESS. More
- changes were made to support additional statistical languages,
- particularly XLispStat.
-
- ESS initially worked only with Unix statistics packages that used
- standard-input and standard-output for both the command-line interface
- and batch processing. ESS could not communicate with statistical
- packages that did not use this protocol. This changed in 1998 when
- Brian Ripley demonstrated use of the Windows Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
- protocol with ESS. Heiberger then used DDE to provide interactive
- interfaces for Windows versions of Splus. In 1999, Rodney A. Sparapani
- and Heiberger implemented SAS batch for ESS relying on files, rather
- than standard-input/standard-output, for Unix, Windows and Mac. In
- 2001, Sparapani added BUGS batch file processing to ESS for Unix and
- Windows.
-
- * The multiple process code, and the idea for
- 'ess-eval-line-and-next-line' are by Rod Ball.
-
- * Thanks to Doug Bates for many useful suggestions.
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- * Thanks to Martin Maechler for reporting and fixing bugs, providing
- many useful comments and suggestions, and for maintaining the ESS
- mailing lists.
-
- * Thanks to Frank Ritter for updates, particularly the menu code, and
- invaluable comments on the manual.
-
- * Thanks to Ken'ichi Shibayama for his excellent indenting code, and
- many comments and suggestions.
-
- * Thanks to Aki Vehtari for adding interactive BUGS support.
-
- * Thanks to Brendan Halpin for bug-fixes and updates to Stata-mode.
-
- * Last, but definitely not least, thanks to the many ESS users and
- contributors to the ESS mailing lists.
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- _ESS_ is being developed and currently maintained by
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- * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe@gmail.com)
- * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh@temple.edu)
- * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org)
- * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch)
- * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa@mcw.edu)
- * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen@gnu.org)
- * Sebastian P. Luque (mailto:spluque@gmail.com)
- * Henning Redestig (mailto:henning.red@googlemail.com)
- * Vitalie Spinu (mailto:spinuvit@gmail.com)
- * Lionel Henry (mailto:lionel.hry@gmail.com)
- * J. Alexander Branham (mailto:alex.branham@gmail.com)
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