Acknowledgments
The core team wishes to thank ...
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Rick Becker, John Chambers and Allan Wilks
for the language design.
Particular thanks goes to John Chambers who answered our
(sometimes impertinent) questions with patience and good grace.
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The Free Software Foundation and
the FreeBSD and XFree86 teams for the
superior and ``free'' development tools.
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Guy Steel and Gerald Sussman for Scheme.
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David Betz and Samuel Kamin for pointers on
the design and implementation of small portable interpreters.
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The authors of the numerical algorithms
which form the statistical heart of R.
Particularly to the developers of Linpack which represents
a standard of software quality to be aspired to.
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Simon Davies for writing the initial R versions of the
glm and lsfit suites of functions.
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Alan Lee for writing large amounts of applications code in early
(and buggy) versions of R.
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Andreas Buja for encouragement.
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Alan Richardson for the code which draws rotated fonts in X11.
Carlos Fonseca for finding and fixing the bug in Alan's code.
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The students in all our courses who didn't actually
carry out the threats they made after having bleeding edge development
versions of R inflicted on them in our laboratories.
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The Distillers of Scotland and Vintners world wide.
Special thanks from R&R to ...
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The University of Auckland for support, including Sun
SPARCstation ELC
and IPX computers, two PCs, several Macintoshes and a PowerPC.
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The Campus Espresso Cart and the Black Crow Cafe.
Last modified: January 26, 1998 by Friedrich Leisch