Arguing about which programming language is the best one is a favorite pastime among software developers. The tricky part, of course, is defining a set of criteria for "best." With software ...

The R programming language is an important tool for development in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With machines becoming more important as data generators, the popularity of the ...

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 ...

We're at the beginning of a new wave of numeric data -- and the new R language provides a powerful array of tools to make sense of it all We tend to think of programming languages as general purpose, ...

Hard to believe, but the R programming language has been with us since 1993. A quarter century has now passed since the authors Gentleman and Ihaka originally conceived the R platform as an ...

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; ...

While Python is my primary programming language for statistical analysis, I'm picking the other major language, R, even though it's considered niche. Here are the reasons why. One thing I love about ...