c(person("Arkajyoti", "Saha", role=c("aut", "cre"), email="arkajyotisaha93@gmail.com"), person("Abhirup", "Datta", role="aut", email="abhidatta@jhu.edu"), person("Jorge", "Nocedal", role="ctb", email="j-nocedal@northwestern.edu"), person("Naoaki", "Okazaki", role="ctb", email="okazaki@c.titech.ac.jp"), person("Lukas M.", "Weber",  role="ctb", email = "lukas.weber.edu@gmail.com"))
Arkajyoti Saha [aut, cre],
Abhirup Datta [aut],
Jorge Nocedal [ctb],
Naoaki Okazaki [ctb],
Lukas M. Weber [ctb]

person("Mauricio", "Sadinle", email = "msadinle@uw.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7092-3877"))
Implementation of the record linkage methodology proposed by Sadinle (2017) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612>.  It handles the bipartite record linkage problem, where two duplicate-free datafiles are to be merged.
Mauricio Sadinle [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7092-3877>)

The Chief Software Bug is Andrew Thomas, with web assistance from Real Bug Bob O'Hara. Other members of the BUGS team are statisticians David Spiegelhalter, Nicky Best, Dave Lunn and Ken Rice. Dave Lunn has also made major contributions to the software development. R Code modified, extended and packaged for R by Uwe Ligges and Sibylle Sturtz. Some ideas taken from the R2WinBUGS package based on code by Andrew Gelman.
An R package containing OpenBUGS and its R interface BRugs.
currently the only supported OS is Windows, we expect to support Linux in future releases

OpenBUGS and its R / S-PLUS interface BRugs
The Chief Software Bug is Andrew Thomas, with web assistance
from Real Bug Bob O'Hara. Other members of the BUGS team are
statisticians David Spiegelhalter, Nicky Best, Dave Lunn and
Ken Rice. Dave Lunn has also made major contributions to the
software development. R Code modified, extended and packaged
for R by Uwe Ligges and Sibylle Sturtz. Some ideas taken from
the R2WinBUGS package based on code by Andrew Gelman.
An R / S-PLUS package containing OpenBUGS and its R /
S-PLUS interface BRugs.
currently the only supported OS is Windows, we
expect to support Linux in future releases