R (programming language)
R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, and data analysis.
R terminal | |
Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: procedural, object-oriented, functional, reflective, imperative, array |
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Designed by | Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman |
Developer | R Core Team |
First appeared | August 1993 |
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Typing discipline | Dynamic |
Platform | arm64 and x86-64 |
License | GNU GPL v2 |
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Website | www |
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Julia | |
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The core R language is augmented by a large number of extension packages, containing reusable code, documentation, and sample data.
R software is open-source and free software. It is licensed by the GNU Project and available under the GNU General Public License. It is written primarily in C, Fortran, and R itself. Precompiled executables are provided for various operating systems.
As an interpreted language, R has a native command line interface. Moreover, multiple third-party graphical user interfaces are available, such as RStudio—an integrated development environment—and Jupyter—a notebook interface.