So that’s how Revolution Analytics was founded,” says Smith. To call Smith an R enthusiast is an understatement. He is a co-author of the programming manual An Introduction to R that comes ...

In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language.

Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statis ...

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Revolution Analytics, an open-source analytics company with a strong focus on the highly popular R programming language for statistical computing.

Revolution Analytics, meanwhile, said it's glad to join the Microsoft Big Data portfolio, in turn praising the many Microsoft open source efforts. "Now, Microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow ...

In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language.