Ross Ihaka

Ihaka at the New Zealand Open Source Awards (2010)

George Ross Ihaka (* 1954 in Waiuku ) is a New Zealand statistician and associate professor at the University of Auckland . Along with Robert Gentleman , he developed the statistical programming language R .

Ross Ihaka was born in 1954 of Maori origin ( Ngāti Kahungunu / Ngāti Pākehā). In December 1985 he was awarded a Ph. D in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley . After teaching at Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he returned to New Zealand in the early 1990s and developed the R programming language at the University of Auckland with Robert Gentleman. In 1993, she was a free implementation of the statistical programming language S published. The two researchers were driven by the changed scoping properties and memory management . In addition, they could use the open source code well for demonstration purposes in teaching at the university.

For the development of R 2008 were given gentleman and Ihaka the Pickering Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand . Ihaka is currently doing research in the field of statistical software and graphics, especially software that is as good as R for statistical calculations, but can handle large amounts of data better and is much faster.

Ihaka is a father of two daughters and divorced.

Web links

Page at the University of Auckland

Individual evidence

^ Ross Ihaka, Robert Gentleman: R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics . In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics . tape 5 , no. 3 . American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America, Alexandria 1996, pp. 299–314 ( PDF file; 1.7MB [accessed April 13, 2017]).
↑ Ross Ihaka: R: Past and Future History . In: Computing Science and Statistics . tape 30 , 1998, pp. 392–396 ( PDF file; 92.5 kB [accessed April 13, 2017]).
^ The Royal Society of New Zealand: Pickering Medal. Recipients. In: the Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved April 13, 2017 (English).
^ Sarah Putt: The story of R: a statistical tale with a twist. In: Computerworld. International Data Group, Inc., July 22, 2010, accessed April 13, 2017 .
↑ Juliet Middleton: Academic unfazed by rock star status. In: The New Zealand Herald . NZME. Publishing Ltd., January 10, 2009, accessed April 15, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ihaka, Ross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ihaka, George Ross (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	New Zealand statistician
DATE OF BIRTH	1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waiuku

[1] Ross Ihaka, Robert Gentleman: R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics . In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics . tape 5 , no. 3 . American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America, Alexandria 1996, pp. 299–314 ( PDF file; 1.7MB [accessed April 13, 2017]).

[2] Ross Ihaka: R: Past and Future History . In: Computing Science and Statistics . tape 30 , 1998, pp. 392–396 ( PDF file; 92.5 kB [accessed April 13, 2017]).

[3] The Royal Society of New Zealand: Pickering Medal. Recipients. In: the Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved April 13, 2017 (English).

[4] Sarah Putt: The story of R: a statistical tale with a twist. In: Computerworld. International Data Group, Inc., July 22, 2010, accessed April 13, 2017 .

[5] Juliet Middleton: Academic unfazed by rock star status. In: The New Zealand Herald . NZME. Publishing Ltd., January 10, 2009, accessed April 15, 2017 .