Friedrich Leisch, one of the earliest R Core Development Team members, and
creator of Sweave, passed away earlier this year, in April.
https://www.r-project.org/doc/obit/fritz.html
I realize this happened a few months ago, but I I don’t think I saw any other
post here acknowledging his passing. I never met him personally, although we
did live and work in Vienna at the same time. In 1998 I began collaborating
with computer vision researchers at the TU Wien. When I asked them whether
there’s any statistical computing environment that they could recommend that
unlike SPSS (which I had training in) etc was open-source and supported
programming, R was their recommendation. R of course, which was at 0.63.x back
then, could not have been more radically different from SPSS, and yet (or
because of it?) for me it was love at first sight. It turned out they had
published with Leisch and Hornik (who were also at TU Wien at the time). Back
then R had far from the popularity it has today (none of my colleagues had ever
heard of it).
-hilmar
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