[R] Diethelm Wuertz (founder 'Rmetrics')

[Spencer Graves]

       Diethelm and Barbara very generously invited me into their home 
after I had contacted Diethelm asking about Rmetrics prior to visiting 
Zürich years ago.  I agree with Martin.  His legacy will live on via the 
Rmetrics code and companion books.  I don't know if anyone else will be 
able to take over maintaining and extended or if future workshops / 
summer schools will continue to attract an audience.


       Spencer


On 8/10/2016 2:59 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
> Dear colleagues
>
> We are deeply saddened to inform you that Diethelm and his wife Barbara Würtz
> (ascii-fied 'Wuertz') died in a car accident during their vacation in
> Hungary last week.
>
> Both, Diethelm and Barbara worked at the ETH Zurich,
> Diethelm as a researcher and teacher in the Institute for Theoretical
> Physics and Barbara as an advisor in the Human Resources division.
>
> In the "R world", Diethelm has been known as an enthousiastic
> entrepreneur, having built the "Rmetrics" project (http://www.rmetrics.org)
> quite early in the history of R.  He organized much-liked
> workshops / summer schools about "R in Finance" at Meielisalp in
> the Swiss mountains, and in cities such as Zurich, Paris or Mumbay.
>
> Many of us have known Barbara and Diethelm as generous and amiable people
> who've enjoyed hosting others both at such workshops or privately.
> They leave their son, Fabian, and their daughter-in-law Viktoria.
> Our thoughts are with them.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich (Seminar for Statistics)
> Adrian Trapletti, Uster Metrics
>
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