| R would not be what it is today without the invaluable help of these |
| people outside of the R core team, who contributed by donating code, bug |
| fixes and documentation: |
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| Valerio Aimale, Suharto Anggono, Thomas Baier, Henrik Bengtsson, Roger Bivand, |
| Ben Bolker, David Brahm, G"oran Brostr"om, Patrick Burns, Vince Carey, |
| Saikat DebRoy, Matt Dowle, Brian D'Urso, Lyndon Drake, Dirk Eddelbuettel, |
| Claus Ekstrom, Sebastian Fischmeister, John Fox, Paul Gilbert, |
| Yu Gong, Gabor Grothendieck, Frank E Harrell Jr, Peter M. Haverty, |
| Torsten Hothorn, Robert King, Kjetil Kjernsmo, Roger Koenker, Philippe Lambert, |
| Jan de Leeuw, Jim Lindsey, Patrick Lindsey, Catherine Loader, |
| Gordon Maclean, Arni Magnusson, John Maindonald, David Meyer, Ei-ji Nakama, |
| Jens Oehlschaegel, Steve Oncley, Richard O'Keefe, Hubert Palme, |
| Roger D. Peng, Jose' C. Pinheiro, Tony Plate, Anthony Rossini, |
| Jonathan Rougier, Petr Savicky, Guenther Sawitzki, Marc Schwartz, |
| Arun Srinivasan, Detlef Steuer, Bill Simpson, Gordon Smyth, Adrian Trapletti, |
| Terry Therneau, Rolf Turner, Bill Venables, Gregory R. Warnes, |
| Andreas Weingessel, Morten Welinder, James Wettenhall, Simon Wood, and |
| Achim Zeileis. |
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| Others have written code that has been adopted by R and is |
| acknowledged in the code files, including |
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| J. D. Beasley, David J. Best, Richard Brent, Kevin Buhr, Michael |
| A. Covington, Bill Cleveland, Robert Cleveland,, G. W. Cran, |
| C. G. Ding, Ulrich Drepper, Paul Eggert, J. O. Evans, David M. Gay, |
| H. Frick, G. W. Hill, Richard H. Jones, Eric Grosse, Shelby Haberman, |
| Bruno Haible, John Hartigan, Andrew Harvey, Trevor Hastie, Min Long |
| Lam, George Marsaglia, K. J. Martin, Gordon Matzigkeit, |
| C. R. Mckenzie, Jean McRae, Cyrus Mehta, Fionn Murtagh, John C. Nash, |
| Finbarr O'Sullivan, R. E. Odeh, William Patefield, Nitin Patel, Alan |
| Richardson, D. E. Roberts, Patrick Royston, Russell Lenth, Ming-Jen |
| Shyu, Richard C. Singleton, S. G. Springer, Supoj Sutanthavibul, Irma |
| Terpenning, G. E. Thomas, Rob Tibshirani, Wai Wan Tsang, Berwin |
| Turlach, Gary V. Vaughan, Michael Wichura, Jingbo Wang, M. A. Wong, |
| and the Free Software Foundation (for autoconf code and utilities). |
| See also files under src/extras. |
| |
| Many more, too numerous to mention here, have contributed by sending bug |
| reports and suggesting various improvements. |
| |
| Simon Davies whilst at the University of Auckland wrote the original |
| version of glm(). |
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| Julian Harris and Wing Kwong (Tiki) Wan whilst at the University of |
| Auckland assisted Ross Ihaka with the original Macintosh port. |
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| R was inspired by the S environment which has been principally |
| developed by John Chambers, with substantial input from Douglas Bates, |
| Rick Becker, Bill Cleveland, Trevor Hastie, Daryl Pregibon and |
| Allan Wilks. |
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| A special debt is owed to John Chambers who has graciously contributed |
| advice and encouragement in the early days of R and later became a |
| member of the core team. |
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| email addresses to contributors to the R Project (even without making them |
| members of the R Foundation) when in the view of the R Foundation this |
| would help advance the R project. |
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| The R Core Group, Roger Bivand, Jennifer Bryan, Di Cook, Dirk Eddelbuettel, |
| John Fox, Bettina GrΓΌn, Frank Harrell, Torsten Hothorn, Stefano Iacus, |
| Julie Josse, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Marc Schwartz, Heather Turner, |
| Bill Venables, Hadley Wickham and Achim Zeileis are the ordinary members of |
| the R Foundation. |
| In addition, David Meyer and Simon Wood are also e-addressable by |
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