Thanks To ...

• Rick Becker, John Chambers and Allan Wilks for the language design. Particular thanks goes to John Chambers who answered our (sometimes impertinent) questions with patience and good grace.

• The Free Software Foundation and the FreeBSD and XFree86 teams for the superior and ``free'' development tools.

• Guy Steel and Gerald Sussman for Scheme.

• David Betz and Samuel Kamin for pointers on the design and implementation of small portable interpreters.

• The authors of the numerical algorithms which form the statistical heart of R. Particularly to the developers of Linpack which represents a standard of software quality to be aspired to.

• Simon Davies for writing the R versions of the glm and lsfit suites of functions.

• Alan Lee for writing large amounts of applications code in early (and buggy) versions of R.

• Martin Maechler for extensive testing and feedback.

• Luke Tierny and Andreas Buja for encouragement.

• Alan Richardson for the code which draws rotated fonts in X11. Carlos Fonseca for finding and fixing the bug in Alan's code.

• The University of Auckland for support, including Sun SPARCstation ELC and IPX computers, two PCs, several Macintoshes and a PowerPC.

• The students in our first and second year courses who didn't actually carry out the threats they made after having early versions of R inflicted on them in our laboratories.

• The Campus Espresso Cart and the Black Crow Cafe.

• The Distillers of Scotland and Vintners world wide.