| R would not be what it is today without the invaluable help of these | |
| people outside of the (former and current) R Core team, who | |
| contributed by donating code, bug fixes and documentation: | |
| Valerio Aimale, Suharto Anggono, Thomas Baier, Gabe Becker, 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 | |
| Oehlschl"agel, 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. | |
| Others have written code that has been adopted by R and is | |
| acknowledged in the code files, including | |
| 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(). | |
| Julian Harris and Wing Kwong (Tiki) Wan whilst at the University of | |
| Auckland assisted Ross Ihaka with the original Macintosh port. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Stefano Iacus (up to 2014, a former member of R Core) and Simon | |
| Urbanek developed the macOS port, including the R.app GUI, toolchains | |
| and packaging. | |
| The Windows port was originally developed by Guido Masarotto (for a | |
| while a member of R Core) and Brian Ripley, then further by Duncan | |
| Murdoch (a former member of R Core) and then Jeroen Ooms (base) and | |
| Uwe Ligges (packages). Tomas Kalibera is the current main developer | |
| of the Windows port and provides assistance with package porting. | |
| Tomas Kalibera's work has been sponsored by Jan Vitek and funded by | |
| his European Research Council grant "Evolving Language Ecosystems | |
| (ELE)". | |
| Computing support (including hardware, hosting and infrastructure) has | |
| been provided/funded by the R Foundation, employers of R-Core members | |
| (notably WU Wien, ETH Zurich, U Oxford and U Iowa) and by Northeastern | |
| University and the University of Kent. | |
| Distributions of R contain the recommended packages, whose | |
| authors/contributors are listed in their DESCRIPTION files. |