R Foundation Membership

The ordinary members are elected by a majority vote of the general assembly. New ordinary members are selected based on their non-monetary contributions (code, effort, …) to the R project. The initial set of ordinary members at establishment of the organization consisted of the members of the “R Development Core Team” as listed in the sources of R release 1.5.0.

Ordinary members

  • Henrik Bengtsson (Sweden, USA)
  • Roger Bivand (Norway)
  • Jennifer Bryan (Canada)
  • John Chambers (USA)
  • Di Cook (Australia)
  • Peter Dalgaard (Denmark)
  • Dirk Eddelbuettel (USA)
  • Robert Gentleman (USA)
  • Bettina Grün (Austria)
  • Frank Harrell (USA)
  • Kurt Hornik (Austria)
  • Torsten Hothorn (Switzerland)
  • Stefano Iacus (Italy)
  • Ross Ihaka (New Zealand)
  • Julie Josse (France)
  • Tomas Kalibera (Czechia, USA)
  • Michael Lawrence (USA)
  • Friedrich Leisch (Austria)
  • Uwe Ligges (Germany)
  • Thomas Lumley (USA, New Zealand)
  • Martin Mächler (Switzerland)
  • Sebastian Meyer (Germany)
  • Paul Murrell (New Zealand)
  • Balasubramanian Narasimhan (USA)
  • Martyn Plummer (UK)
  • Edzer Pebesma (Germany)
  • Gabriela de Queiroz (USA)
  • Deepayan Sarkar (India)
  • Marc Schwartz (USA)
  • Duncan Temple Lang (USA)
  • Luke Tierney (USA)
  • Heather Turner (UK)
  • Simon Urbanek (Germany, USA)
  • Hadley Wickham (USA)
  • Achim Zeileis (Austria)