We are very happy to announce that Tomas Kalibera (e.g. https://github.com/kalibera ) has joined the R core team (on Dec 17). He has been a contributor to the R source with numerous improvements since mid 2014. Note that he's been among the five newly elected ordinary members of the R Foundation in early November, https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2016/000609.html For the R core team, Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich