What Is R Language

Introduction

 

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand was officially released on April 1, 1997. R language, written in C, Fortran, and R, is an open-source licensed under GNU General Public License.

 

R language is used with the R environment.

 

The R Environment

 

R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation, and graphical display. It includes

• an effective data handling and storage facility,
• a suite of operators for calculations on arrays, in particular matrices,
• a large, coherent, integrated collection of intermediate tools for data analysis,
• graphical facilities for data analysis and display either on-screen or on hardcopy, and
• a well-developed, simple, and effective programming language which includes conditionals, loops, user-defined recursive functions, and input and output facilities. 

Operating System

 

R language can be used to write and interpret code on Windows, Unix, and Mac OS loaded machines.

 

R popularity

 

Recent growth in big data and need of big data analysis, charts, and reports, R popularity is growing day by day due to its use for data analysis, data manipulation, calculation, and graphical display.

 

Get started with R

 

You can visit the following to learn about R Language:

•  https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/technologies/r

Here is full documentation:

• https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html#Introduction-and-preliminaries 

References: 

• https://www.r-project.org/about.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)