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Ross Ihaka

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Ross Ihaka, in full George Ross Ihaka, is a New Zealand statistician born in 1954 who was an associate professor of statistics at the University of Auckland until his retirement in 2017. Together with Robert Gentleman he is one of the creators of the R programming language, an environment for statistical computing and graphics. In 2008 the Royal Society of New Zealand awarded him the Pickering Medal for his work on R.

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1954 1
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Data Science, Fields
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is a New Zealand statistician
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born 1954
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created in 1993 by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman
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