--- title: 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core... description: Five members of the R Core Team have been awarded the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, a $1 million international award recognizing major contributions to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-rousseeuw-prize-for-statistics-awarded-to-r-core-team-for-transforming-statistics-computing-wor-twnxjsase twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core Team for Transforming Statistics Computing Worldwide | daily.dev og:description: Five members of the R Core Team have been awarded the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, a $1 million international award recognizing major contributions to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-rousseeuw-prize-for-statistics-awarded-to-r-core-team-for-transforming-statistics-computing-wor-twnxjsase og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/twNxJSASe.png og:image:alt: 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core Team for Transforming Statistics Computing Worldwide og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core Team for Transforming Statistics Computing Worldwide **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Five members of the R Core Team have been awarded the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, a $1 million international award recognizing major contributions to statistical research. The honorees — Brian D. Ripley, Martin Maechler, Kurt Hornik, Peter Dalgaard, and Luke Tierney — are recognized for nearly three decades of unpaid work building and maintaining R, the free and open-source statistical computing language. Over 27 years and a collective 28,000 coding hours, the team transformed statistics from a proprietary corporate tool into a global public good used by the FDA, pharmaceutical companies, central banks, and countless research institutions worldwide. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@medsheriff** · 0 upvotes > I knew R was an open source, I had no idea it was kept alive all these years by three people ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [rOpenSci News Digest, March 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/ropensci-news-digest-march-2026-ljtvict4d) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why Learning R is a Good Career Move in 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/why-learning-r-is-a-good-career-move-in-2026-35sjw8r4d) · R-bloggers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [rOpenSci News Digest, April 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/ropensci-news-digest-april-2026-tntzvo0uw) · R-bloggers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [R language is making a comeback – Tiobe](https://daily.dev/posts/r-language-is-making-a-comeback-tiobe-0hmgzdkkh) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing New Statistical Software Peer Review Editors: Natalia da Silva and Andrew 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