Madleina Caduff wrote the R package 'birp' providing the R integration. Madleina Caduff, Liam Singer and Daniel Wegmann wrote the C++ implementation of birp at https://bitbucket.org/wegmannlab/birp_cpp/. Madleina Caduff, Andreas Füglistaler, Raphael Eckel and Daniel Wegmann wrote the C++ libraries coretools and stattools at https://bitbucket.org/wegmannlab/coretools/ and https://bitbucket.org/wegmannlab/stattools/. Liam Singer, Madleina Caduff, Thierry Aebischer, Primaël Tabiti, Aimée Freiberg, Jens Ingensand, Christoph Leuenberger and Daniel Wegmann wrote the underlying paper . birp uses the fast-float library by Daniel Lemire _et al_ described in and with its code repo at https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float. The code (v8.0.2) was slightly modified to be compatible with CRAN rules and is available at https://bitbucket.org/wegmannlab/fast_float/. The fast-float library is licensed under Apache (2.0), MIT, BOOST.