R wins statistics award.

Elena Belogolovsky writes: Congratulations to the R Core Team on receiving the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics. R has made creative, open-ended statistical analysis and graphics accessible to generations of statisticians and applied researchers. It has also been central to statistical research, methodology, and applications during decades when statistics became more computational and more important across science, engineering, business, and public health. One of the great strengths of R is that it is not just a software platform. It is also a community. The system of R packages allows anyone to implement a new method and share it with the world, helping make statistical research more open, useful, and alive. R has also been the medium for major developments in statistical graphics, transforming applied statistics and the way people work with data. The volunteers who have developed, guided, and maintained R and the R community are richly deserving of this major award. I agree with…