Martin Morgan [aut, cre],
  Jiefei Wang [aut],
  Valerie Obenchain [aut],
  Michel Lang [aut],
  Ryan Thompson [aut],
  Nitesh Turaga [aut],
  Aaron Lun [ctb],
  Henrik Bengtsson [ctb],
  Madelyn Carlson [ctb] (Translated 'Random Numbers' vignette from Sweave
    to RMarkdown / HTML.),
  Phylis Atieno [ctb] (Translated 'Introduction to BiocParallel' vignette
    from Sweave to Rmarkdown / HTML.),
  Sergio Oller [ctb] (Improved bpmapply() efficiency.,
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8994-1549>)

Support for parallel computation, including by forking
   (taken from package multicore), by sockets (taken from package snow)
   and random-number generation.

Sets, Generalized Sets, Customizable Sets and Intervals

Data structures and basic operations for ordinary sets,
             generalizations such as fuzzy sets, multisets, and
             fuzzy multisets, customizable sets, and intervals.

c(person(given = "David", family = "Meyer", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "David.Meyer@R-project.org",
		    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5196-3048")),	    
             person(given = "Kurt", family = "Hornik", role = "aut",
	            email = "Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org",
                    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4198-9911")),
             person(given = "Christian", family = "Buchta", role = "ctb"))

David Meyer [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5196-3048>),
  Kurt Hornik [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-9911>),
  Christian Buchta [ctb]

"Finding Groups in Data": Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et
al.

Methods for Cluster analysis.  Much extended the original from
	Peter Rousseeuw, Anja Struyf and Mia Hubert,
	based on Kaufman and Rousseeuw (1990) "Finding Groups in Data".

c(person("Martin","Maechler", role = c("aut","cre"),
	   email="maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8685-9910"))
 ,person("Peter", "Rousseeuw", role="aut", email="peter.rousseeuw@kuleuven.be",
         comment = c("Fortran original", ORCID = "0000-0002-3807-5353"))
 ,person("Anja", "Struyf", role="aut", comment= "S original")
 ,person("Mia", "Hubert", role="aut", email= "Mia.Hubert@uia.ua.ac.be",
         comment = c("S original", ORCID = "0000-0001-6398-4850"))
 ,person("Kurt", "Hornik", role=c("trl", "ctb"),
         email="Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org",
         comment=c("port to R; maintenance(1999-2000)", ORCID="0000-0003-4198-9911"))
 ,person("Matthias", "Studer", role="ctb")
 ,person("Pierre", "Roudier", role="ctb")
 ,person("Juan",   "Gonzalez", role="ctb")
 ,person("Kamil",  "Kozlowski", role="ctb")
 ,person("Erich",  "Schubert", role="ctb", comment = c("fastpam options for pam()",
                                                       ORCID = "0000-0001-9143-4880"))
 ,person("Keefe",  "Murphy", role="ctb", comment = "volume.ellipsoid({d >= 3})")
 #not yet ,person("Fischer-Rasmussen", "Kasper", role = "ctb", comment = "Gower distance for CLARA")
 )