The ‘R Foundation News’ article from the 2014-2 issue.
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
Duncan Murdoch, Martyn Plummer
Martin Mächler
Kurt Hornik
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.
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/.
Shannon Callan, USA
Rees Morrison, USA
Carlos Ortega, Spain
Jose M. Benitez, Spain
Daniel Emaasit, USA
Jay Emerson, USA
Bastiaan Quast, Switzerland
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BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2014-2-r-foundation,
author = {Mächler, Martin and Hornik, Kurt},
title = {R Foundation News},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2014},
note = {https://rjournal.github.io/},
volume = {6},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {190-191}
}