Fast, correct, consistent, portable and convenient character
    string/text processing in every locale and any native encoding. 
    Owing to the use of the 'ICU' (International Components for Unicode) 
    library, the package provides 'R' users with platform-independent functions
    known to 'Java', 'Perl', 'Python', 'PHP' and 'Ruby' programmers. Available
    features include: pattern searching (e.g., with 'Java'-like regular
    expressions or the 'Unicode' collation algorithm), random string generation,
    case mapping, string transliteration, concatenation,
    Unicode normalization, date-time formatting and parsing and many more.

Marek Gagolewski [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-6028>),
    Bartek Tartanus [ctb]
    and other contributors (stringi source code);
    IBM, Unicode, Inc. and other contributors (ICU4C source code);
    Unicode, Inc. (Unicode Character Database)

c(
    person("JJ", "Allaire", role = c("aut"), email = "jj@rstudio.com"),
    person("Romain", "Francois", role = c("aut", "cph")),
    person("Kevin", "Ushey", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "kevin@rstudio.com"),
    person("Gregory", "Vandenbrouck", role = "aut"),
    person("Marcus", "Geelnard", role = c("aut", "cph"),
       comment = "TinyThread library, http://tinythreadpp.bitsnbites.eu/"),
    person(family = "RStudio", role = "cph"),
    person(family = "Intel", role = c("aut", "cph"),
       comment = "Intel TBB library, https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/"),
    person(family = "Microsoft", role = "cph")
    )

High level functions for parallel programming with 'Rcpp'.
    For example, the 'parallelFor()' function can be used to convert the work of
    a standard serial "for" loop into a parallel one and the 'parallelReduce()'
    function can be used for accumulating aggregate or other values.

GNU make, Windows: cmd.exe and cscript.exe,
Solaris: g++ is required

JJ Allaire [aut],
  Romain Francois [aut, cph],
  Kevin Ushey [aut, cre],
  Gregory Vandenbrouck [aut],
  Marcus Geelnard [aut, cph] (TinyThread library,
    http://tinythreadpp.bitsnbites.eu/),
  RStudio [cph],
  Intel [aut, cph] (Intel TBB library,
    https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/),
  Microsoft [cph]