Speaker
Peter Dalgaard
Description
Abstract:
R grew out of the PC, Internet, and Open Source revolution in the 1990s. I will give an account of the early history of R, and then outline the development principles of R Core, with special focus on release management. However, the R Core Team is not alone in the governance of the R project, other major actors being the CRAN team, the R Foundation and the R Consortium. I discuss their contributions with a view to sustainability and possible improvements.
Bio:
Member of the R Core Team since 1997. Professor of Statistics at Copenhagen Business School since 2010, and before that almost 25 years at the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen.