# Acknowledgments

## The core team wishes to thank ...

- 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.
- The Free Software Foundation and the FreeBSD and XFree86 teams for the superior and ``free'' development tools.
- Guy Steel and Gerald Sussman for Scheme.
- David Betz and Samuel Kamin for pointers on the design and implementation of small portable interpreters.
- 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.
- Simon Davies for writing the initial R versions of the glm and lsfit suites of functions.
- Alan Lee for writing large amounts of applications code in early (and buggy) versions of R.
- Andreas Buja for encouragement.
- Alan Richardson for the code which draws rotated fonts in X11. Carlos Fonseca for finding and fixing the bug in Alan's code.
- 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.
- The Distillers of Scotland and Vintners world wide.

## Special thanks from R&R to ...

- The University of Auckland for support, including Sun SPARCstation ELC and IPX computers, two PCs, several Macintoshes and a PowerPC.
- The Campus Espresso Cart and the Black Crow Cafe.