University of Auckland University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for
R programming language
Awards
Pickering Medal (2008)
Scientific career
Fields
Statistical computing
Institutions
University of Auckland
Thesis
Rūaumoko(1985)
Doctoral advisor
David R. Brillinger[1]
Website
www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/
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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^Wickham, Hadley (2014). Advanced R. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC. p. 437. ISBN 9780429192678.
^"Ross Ihaka retires from the Department of Statistics – The University of Auckland". stat.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
^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.
^Vance, Ashlee (7 January 2009). "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
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^Pickering Medal: Recipients, Royal Society of New Zealand.
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cycleway no joking matter". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 30 October 2011. Ihaka, James (24 March 2009). "Bike plan has Waikato in a spin". The New Zealand...
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