Rmetrics is a free and open-source software project designed for teaching computational finance.

The project was started in 2001 by Diethelm Wuertz, based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

The Rmetrics project has a commitment to full open source discipline, with distribution via a SourceForge.net-like platform.

All software contributions are expected to exist under an open source license such as GPL2, Artistic 2.0, or BSD.

The following developers (in alphabetical order) contribute or have contributed to the Rmetrics packages: Andrew Ellis, Christophe Dutang, David Lüthi, David Scott, Diethelm Würtz, Francesco Gochez, Juri Hinz, Marco Perlin, Martin Mächler, Maxime Debon, Petr Savicky, Philipp Erb, Pierre Chausse, Sergio Guirreri, Spencer Graves, and Yohan Chalabi.