# Authors

R was initially written by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka. Both are Senior Lecturers in the Statistics Department of the University of Auckland. They can be reached as rgentlem@stat.auckland.ac.nz and ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz.

Since mid-1997 there has been a core group who can modify the R source code CVS archive. The group currently consists of

> Douglas Bates, Peter Dalgaard, Robert Gentleman, Kurt Hornik, Ross Ihaka, Friedrich Leisch, Thomas Lumley, Martin Maechler, Paul Murrell, Heiner Schwarte, and Luke Tierney.

In addition, a large group of individuals has contributed to R by sending code and bug reports.

Last modified: March 18, 1998 by Friedrich Leisch