1.8 Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the many contributors to R-devel and R-help and, more recently, Stack Overflow and RStudio Community. There are too many to name individually, but I’d particularly like to thank Luke Tierney, John Chambers, JJ Allaire, and Brian Ripley for generously giving their time and correcting my countless misunderstandings.

This book was written in the open, and chapters were advertised on twitter when complete. It is truly a community effort: many people read drafts, fixed typos, suggested improvements, and contributed content. Without those contributors, the book wouldn’t be nearly as good as it is, and I’m deeply grateful for their help. Special thanks go to Jeff Hammerbacher, Peter Li, Duncan Murdoch, and Greg Wilson, who all read the book from cover-to-cover and provided many fixes and suggestions.

A big thank you to all 386 contributors (in alphabetical order by username): Aaron Wolen (@aaronwolen), @absolutelyNoWarranty, Adam Hunt (@adamphunt), @agrabovsky, Alexander Grueneberg (@agrueneberg), Anthony Damico (@ajdamico), James Manton (@ajdm), Aaron Schumacher (@ajschumacher), Alan Dipert (@alandipert), Alex Brown (@alexbbrown), @alexperrone, Alex Whitworth (@alexWhitworth), Alexandros Kokkalis (@alko989), @amarchin, Amelia McNamara (@AmeliaMN), Bryce Mecum (@amoeba), Andrew Laucius (@andrewla), Andrew Bray (@andrewpbray), Andrie de Vries (@andrie), Angela Li (@angela-li), @aranlunzer, Ari Lamstein (@arilamstein), @asnr, Andy Teucher (@ateucher), Albert Vilella (@avilella), baptiste (@baptiste), Brian G. Barkley (@BarkleyBG), Mara Averick (@batpigandme), Byron (@bcjaeger), Brandon Greenwell (@bgreenwell), Brandon Hurr (@bhive01), Jason Knight (@binarybana), Brett Klamer (@bklamer), Jesse Anderson (@blindjesse), Brian Mayer (@blmayer), Benjamin L. 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