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R Alive

R
KindProgramming language
Appeared1993
StatusAlive
CreatorIhaka & Gentleman / Auckland
FamilyS
Sourcewww.r-project.org ↗

The statisticians' S — open-source heir to Bell Labs' data language and the native tongue of quantitative science.

Descended from S
Created by Ross Ihaka Robert Gentleman
Influenced Julia
Predecessors S

Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman's R (1993) — an S clone for statistics — made data frames, vectorized operations, and the tidyverse the lingua franca of data science.\n\nCRAN's 20,000 packages make it the statistical standard; ggplot2 and dplyr are its exports.

Sources

  1. r-project.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)