R.I.P., John Fox
Read OriginalAuthor Yihui Xie shares personal memories of statistician John Fox, detailing Fox's patient mentorship in 2006 on a Structural Equation Models problem and his role as editor for Xie's first English paper. The article reflects on Fox's influence through his R packages (Rcmdr and car) and their impact on the author's early career in statistical computing and the R programming language.
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