R is an open source language/environment that is governed by GPL2 and not under the terms of the Oracle license agreement.
R was initially written by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka of the Statistics Department of the University of Auckland.
Since mid-1997 there has been a core group with write access to the R source, currently consisting of
plus Heiner Schwarte up to October 1999 and Guido Masarotto up to June 2003.
For more information go to (http://www.r-project.org
).
Current R-core members can be contacted via email to R-project.org with name made up by replacing spaces by dots in the name listed above.
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