In the media: Peter Dalgaard, Center for Statistics, on the programming language R

Professor at Center for Statistics, Department of Finance, Peter Dalgaard is one of the founding fathers of the statistical programming language R and he has recently been featured in the media about R, its past and its future

04/09/2018

Peter Dalgaard, Professor at Center for Statistics, Department of Finance, is one out of only 11 members that made up the first 鈥淩 Core鈥� team, the founding fathers of the statistical programming language R.

August 2018 marks the 25th anniversary for the creation of R and the cover story of the Statistical Society鈥檚 Significance Magazine is entitled 鈥淩 Generation鈥�, and features an interview with among others Peter Dalgaard, on the 鈥淩 Core鈥� team.

Also the Danish online magazine Datatech featured an interview with Peter Dalgaard on R and the 鈥淩 Core鈥� team鈥檚 difficulties with finding successors in August.聽

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You can read more about the history of the R program in the article: R generation. Thieme, N., Significance, (2018) 15: 14-19. doi:

Find the interview with Peter Dalgaard in Datatech here:

Sidst opdateret: Center for Statistics // 11/07/2023