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NEWS AND NOTES 190 R Foundation News by Martin Mächler and Kurt Hornik New R Foundation board Subsequent to meetings of the R Foundation in the summer of 2014, and after a careful nomination and voting process, the election of a new board of the R Foundation was ﬁnalized on December 1. The new board consists of Presidents: Duncan Murdoch, Martyn Plummer Secretary General: Martin Mächler Treasurer: Kurt Hornik Members at Large: John Chambers, Brian Ripley, Dirk Eddelbuettel Peter Dalgaard and Roger Bivand will serve as auditors. Our many thanks go to the outgoing board members, who have led the R Foundation during the years of phenomenal growth and success since its creation in April 2003: These are Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, our past presidents, and Friedrich Leisch, the former Secretary General. New ordinary members The following new ordinary members were elected, as announced on September 15.1 Dirk Eddelbuettel, USA Torsten Hothorn, Switzerland Michael Lawrence, USA Martin Morgan, USA Marc Schwartz, USA Hadley Wickham, USA Achim Zeileis, Austria This brings the total number of ordinary members to 29. As always, the complete member- ship list, along with other details, is available at http://www.r-project.org/foundation/. Donations and new supporting members Donations Shannon Callan, USA Rees Morrison, USA Carlos Ortega, Spain New supporting members Jose M. Benitez, Spain Daniel Emaasit, USA Jay Emerson, USA Bastiaan Quast, Switzerland 1https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2014/000577.html The R Journal Vol. 6/2, December 2014 ISSN 2073-4859 NEWS AND NOTES 191 Martin Mächler ETH Zurich, Switzerland [email protected] Kurt Hornik WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria [email protected] The R Journal Vol. 6/2, December 2014 ISSN 2073-4859.

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