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 ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

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.

There's no clear agreement about what's behind statistical programming language R's recent apparent rise. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer July 6, 2020 at 5:35 a.m. PT ...

It’s based heavily on a language called S developed in the 60’s and 70’s. It’s called R instead of the expected T because its name was based on the developers’ shared first initial.