Analytics Programming Languages R Language R Markdown isn’t going away. But the Quarto publishing platform is as friendly to Python, Julia, and Observable JavaScript as it is to R.

R is a package of free software and programming language developed by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka in 1993. It is widely used by statisticians, bioinformaticians, and data miners to develop ...

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, James Fransham makes the case for R being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.