diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
index 2fe0099b8..d2b87770a 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Past contributors include:
  James Michael DuPont, Clark McGrew, Dustin Mitchell, Ian Cooke, Catalin Dumitrescu, Baran
  Kovuk, Oleg Tolmatcev, Tal Shalif, Lluis Padro, Chris Seatory, Igor Bely, Robin Dunn,
  Edward Zimmermann, David Ascher, Dominique Dumont, Pier Giorgio Esposito, Hasan Baran Kovuk,
- Klaus Wiederänders
+ Klaus Wiederänders, Richard Beare
  (See CHANGES and CHANGES.current and the bug tracker for a more complete list).
 
 Past students:
diff --git a/Lib/r/std_vector.i b/Lib/r/std_vector.i
index 155626aa5..f7ad94aac 100644
--- a/Lib/r/std_vector.i
+++ b/Lib/r/std_vector.i
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 // R specific swig components
 /*
   Vectors
-  Thanks to Richard Beare - richard.beare@ieee.org for StdVectorTraits
 */
 
 %fragment("StdVectorTraits","header",fragment="StdSequenceTraits")