Authors of R. 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 Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> John Chambers <jmc@research.bell-labs.com> Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> Robert Gentleman <rgentlem@jimmy.dfci.harvard.edu> Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> Stefano Iacus <stefano.iacus@unimi.it> Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@univie.ac.at> Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu> Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> Paul Murrell <paul@stat.auckland.ac.nz> Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr> Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu> Luke Tierney <luke@stat.uiowa.edu> plus Heiner Schwarte <h.schwarte@bluewin.ch> up to October 1999 and Guido Masarotto <guido@hal.stat.unipd.it> up to June 2003.