c(
person("Graeme", "Blair", , "graeme.blair@ucla.edu", role = "aut"),
person("Jasper", "Cooper", , "jjc2247@columbia.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
person("Alexander", "Coppock", , "alex.coppock@yale.edu", role = "aut"),
person("Macartan", "Humphreys", , "macartan@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
person("Clara", "Bicalho", , "clarabmcorreia@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
person("Neal", "Fultz", , "nfultz@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
person("Lily", "Medina", , "lilymiru@gmail.com", role = "aut")
)

Design Patterns in R to build reusable object-oriented software
Jitao David Zhang, supported by Stefan Wiemann and Wolfgang
Huber
Design patterns are building blocks of reusable
object-oriented software projects. This package provides data
structures and tools to implement, study and reuse design
patterns, especially the ones introduced in the book 'Gang of
Four'.

Life Insurance Premium and Reserves Valuation
c(
person("Joaquin", "Auza", email = "auzajoaquin@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
person("Maria Sol", "Alvarez", email = "alvarezmmsol@gmail.com", role = "aut"))
Methods for valuation of life insurance premiums and reserves (including variable-benefit and fractional coverage) based on  "Actuarial Mathematics" by Bowers, H.U. Gerber, J.C. Hickman, D.A. Jones and C.J. Nesbitt (1997, ISBN: 978-0938959465), "Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks" by Dickson, David C. M., Hardy, Mary R. and Waters, Howard R  (2009) <doi:10.1017/CBO9780511800146>  and "Life Contingencies" by Jordan, C. W (1952) <doi:10.1017/S002026810005410X>. It also contains functions for  equivalent interest and discount rate calculation, present and future values of annuities, and loan amortization schedule.
Joaquin Auza [aut, cre],
Maria Sol Alvarez [aut]

DetMCD Algorithm (Robust and Deterministic Estimation of
Location and Scatter)
matrixStats, pcaPP (>= 1.8-1), robustbase, MASS
DetMCD is a new algorithm for robust and deterministic estimation of location and scatter. The benefits of robust and deterministic estimation are explained in Hubert, M., Rousseeuw, P.J. and Verdonck, T. (2012),"A deterministic algorithm for robust location and scatter", Journal of   Computational and Graphical Statistics, Volume 21, Number 3, Pages 618--637.
c(person("Vakili", "Kaveh", role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "vakili.kaveh.email@gmail.com"),
person("Mia", "Hubert", role = "ths",
email = "mia.hubert@wis.kuleuven.be"))
Vakili Kaveh [aut, cre],
Mia Hubert [ths]