Ross Ihaka

Ross Ihaka
Ihaka at the 2010 New Zealand Open Source Awards
Born
George Ross Ihaka

1954 (age 69–70)
Waiuku, New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known forR programming language
AwardsPickering Medal (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical computing
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
ThesisRūaumoko (1985)
Doctoral advisorDavid R. Brillinger[1]
Websitewww.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/ Edit this at Wikidata

George Ross Ihaka (born 1954[2]) is a New Zealand statistician who was an associate professor of statistics at the University of Auckland until his retirement in 2017.[3] Alongside Robert Gentleman, he is one of the creators of the R programming language.[4][5][6] In 2008, Ihaka received the Pickering Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, for his work on R.[7]

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  2. ^ Wickham, Hadley (2014). Advanced R. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC. p. 437. ISBN 9780429192678.
  3. ^ "Ross Ihaka retires from the Department of Statistics – The University of Auckland". stat.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  4. ^ Ihaka, R.; Gentleman, R. (1996). "R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 5 (3): 299–314. doi:10.2307/1390807. JSTOR 1390807.
  5. ^ Vance, Ashlee (7 January 2009). "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
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  7. ^ Pickering Medal: Recipients, Royal Society of New Zealand.