B N Mandal is currently a scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He has been awarded the prestigious Indo-Australia Early Career Science and Technology Visiting Fellowship by Indian National Science Academy. He is an active researcher and has published two books and around 30 research papers in journals of repute. He is a great fan of R software and uses R for all his research work and data analysis purposes. He has published a few small R packages to his credit.
