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