Project Summary
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.
In a Nutshell, R Programming Language...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 278 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 1997
ending with its most recent commit about 16 hours ago
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