R Project Information

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project similar to the S language and environment developed at Bell Laboratiries (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered a different implementation of S. There are some crucial differences, but not much code written for S runs unaltered under R. R provides a wide variety of statisical and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.

The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical mehtodology, and R provides an open-source route to participation in that activity. One of R’s strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in grpahics, but the user retains complete control.

R is free software under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License terms in source code form. It complies and runs on various UNIX paltforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows, and macOS. For more information, check out the video to learn more about R Project.

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