R Project Contributors

The R Project

R is a project which is attempting to provide a modern piece of statistical software to the GNU suite of software.

Contributors

The current R is the result of a collaborative effort authors from all over the world. R was initially written by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka — also known as “R & R” — of the Statistics Department of the University of Auckland.

Since mid-1997 there has been a core group with access to the R source, currently consisting of

• Douglas Bates

• Peter Dalgaard

• Robert Gentleman

• Kurt Hornik

• Ross Ihaka

• Friedrich Leisch

• Thomas Lumley

• Martin Maechler

• Guido Masarotto

• Paul Murrell

• Brian Ripley

• Heiner Schwarte

• Luke Tierney

In addition, a large group of individuals has contributed to R by donating code, bug reports and documentation, notably

Valerio Aimale, Thomas Baier, Ben Bolker, Goran Brostrom, Paul Gilbert, Robert King, Philippe Lambert, Patrick Lindsey, Jim Lindsey, John Maindonald, Steve Oncley and Gordon Maclean, Richard Okeefe, Hubert Palme, Martyn Plummer, Jonathan Rougier, Bill Simpson, Terry Therneau, Bill Venables, Gregory R. Warnes, and Andreas Weingessel.

We have probably omitted some important names here because of incomplete record keeping. If we have overlooked you, please let us know and we'll update the list.

A special debt is owed to John Chambers who has graciously contributed advice and encouragement.