"Associate Professor Ihaka, of the Department of Statistics, was
recognised with the Royal Society?s Pickering medal for his part in
developing the statistical computing software R. R, created over 15
years ago by Dr Ihaka and colleague Robert Gentleman (now at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle), is free software used by
academics, industry and government worldwide to analyse numerical data
and present it in graphical forms. Computer programmers globally have
contributed to R, with over 1000 industry-specific add-ons created."
from
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/about/news/articles/2008/11/rsnz_honours.cfm
12 November 2008.
John Maindonald email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549
Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.