For those who might be wondering, the programming language was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. Furthermore, note that most of the R libraries are written using R, but for others, C ...

With so much emphasis on getting insight from data these days, it’s no wonder that R is rapidly rising in popularity. R was designed from day one to handle statistics and data visualization, it’s ...

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE’s programming language of the year. C remains the top programming language, according to the August index from ...

This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...