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<h2>The core team wishes to thank ...</h2>

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<b>Rick Becker</b>, <b>John Chambers</b> and <b>Allan Wilks</b>
for the language design.
Particular thanks goes to John Chambers who answered our
(sometimes impertinent) questions with patience and good grace.
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The <b>Free Software Foundation</b> and
the <b>FreeBSD</b> and <b>XFree86</b> teams for the
superior and ``free'' development tools.
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<b>Guy Steel</b> and <b>Gerald Sussman</b> for Scheme.
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<b>David Betz</b> and <b>Samuel Kamin</b> for pointers on
the design and implementation of small portable interpreters.
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The <b>authors</b> of the numerical algorithms
which form the statistical heart of <b>R</b>.
Particularly to the developers of Linpack which represents
a standard of software quality to be aspired to.
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<b>Simon Davies</b> for writing the initial <b>R</b> versions of the
<b>glm</b> and <b>lsfit</b> suites of functions.
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<b>Alan Lee</b> for writing large amounts of applications code in early
(and buggy) versions of <b>R</b>.
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<b>Andreas Buja</b> for encouragement.
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<b>Alan Richardson</b> for the code which draws rotated fonts in X11.
<b>Carlos Fonseca</b> for finding and fixing the bug in Alan's code.
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The <b>students</b> 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.
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The <b>Distillers</b> of Scotland and <b>Vintners</b> world wide.
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<h2>Special thanks from R&amp;R to ...</h2>

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