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Our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch died in April last year. In a new contribution to The R Journal we honor Fritz and commemorate his many contributions to science in general and to the R community in particular.
Citation
Bettina Grün, Kurt Hornik, Torsten Hothorn, Theresa Scharl, Achim Zeileis (2025). “Remembering Friedrich “Fritz” Leisch.” The R Journal 16(1), 5-14. doi:10.32614/RJ-2024-001
Abstract
This article remembers our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch (1968-2024) who sadly died earlier this year. Many of the readers of The R Journal will know Fritz as a member of the R Core Team and for many of his contributions to the R community. For us, the co-authors of this article, he was an important companion on our journey with the R project and other scientific endeavours over the years. In the following, we provide a brief synopsis of his career, present his key contributions to the R project and to the scientific community more generally, acknowledge his academic service, and highlight his teaching and mentoring achievements.
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