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		juancb on March 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries R is much older than 2000, it's from 1993.

andylynch on March 14, 2021 | [–]

And it’s an implementation of S, originally from Bell Labs in 1976

ColFrancis on March 17, 2021 | [–]

Thank you, my brief research led to a list of versions that had R 1.0 as 2000, but it appears that v0 lasted a good many years. Pandas as well was in v0 for many years so it is the better comparison to use like-for-like.

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