New R Foundation board

Subsequent to meetings of the R Foundation in the summer of 2014, and after a careful nomination and voting process, the election of a new board of the R Foundation was finalized on December 1. The new board consists of

Presidents:

Duncan Murdoch, Martyn Plummer

Secretary General:

Martin Mächler

Treasurer:

Kurt Hornik

Members at Large:

John Chambers, Brian Ripley, Dirk Eddelbuettel

Peter Dalgaard and Roger Bivand will serve as auditors.

Our many thanks go to the outgoing board members, who have led the R Foundation during the years of phenomenal growth and success since its creation in April 2003: These are Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, our past presidents, and Friedrich Leisch, the former Secretary General.

New ordinary members

The following new ordinary members were elected, as announced on September 15.1

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel, USA

  • Torsten Hothorn, Switzerland

  • Michael Lawrence, USA

  • Martin Morgan, USA

  • Marc Schwartz, USA

  • Hadley Wickham, USA

  • Achim Zeileis, Austria

This brings the total number of ordinary members to 29. As always, the complete membership list, along with other details, is available at http://www.r-project.org/foundation/.

Donations and new supporting members

Donations

  • Shannon Callan, USA

  • Rees Morrison, USA

  • Carlos Ortega, Spain

New supporting members

  • Jose M. Benitez, Spain

  • Daniel Emaasit, USA

  • Jay Emerson, USA

  • Bastiaan Quast, Switzerland

  1. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2014/000577.html↩︎