R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. Polls and surveys of data miners are showing R's popularity has increased substantially in recent years.
R is an implementation of the S programming language combined with lexical scoping semantics inspired by Scheme. S was created by John Chambers while at Bell Labs. R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and now, R is developed by the R Development Core Team, of which Chambers is a member. R is named partly after the first names of the first two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka), and partly as a play on the name of S.
- Exit R with Ctrl-d or:
> q()
- Jing Gao, researcher.
- Oliver Kennedy, R instructor.
- Sargur Srihari, CSE 718 instructor.
- Aidong Zhang, researcher.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29
- http://www.r-project.org/
- http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html
- http://www.statmethods.net
- http://www.statmethods.net/about/learningcurve.html
