Ross Ihaka is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland who is recognized, along with Robert Gentleman, as one of the originators of the R programming language.[1] He received the Royal Society of New Zealand's Pickering Medal in 2008 for his work on R.[2]
References
- Ihaka, R.; Gentleman, R. (1996). "R: A language for data analysis and graphics". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 5 (3): 299–314. doi:.
- ^ "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-07.
- ^ 2008 Science Honours: Full details - Pickering Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand.
External links
- Ross Ihaka's Web Pages, University of Auckland
- Academic unfazed by rock star status, New Zealand Herald article, 10 January 2009
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