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Encyclopedia > R programming language
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Maintainer: R Foundation
Latest release: 2.3.1 / June 1, 2006
OS: Cross-platform
Use: Programming language
License: GPL
Website: www.r-project.org/

The R programming language, sometimes described as "GNU S", is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It was originally created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman (hence the name R) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is now steadily developed further by a collaborative effort from a core team of developers from around the world. Image File history File links Rlogo. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x854, 209 KB) Screenshot of R with the theme Aqua. ... A screenshot of this page being displayed in the Mozilla web browser. ... Mac OS X (officially pronounced Mac OS Ten) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, sold, and marketed by Apple Computer, the latest of which is included with all currently-shipping Apple Macintosh computers. ... In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine (often a computer). ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo Wikisource has original text related to this article: GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a free software operating system consisting of a kernel, libraries, system tools, compilers and many end-user applications. ... S is a statistical programming language developed by John Chambers of Bell Laboratories. ... For Wikipedia statistics, see m:Statistics Statistics is the science and practice of developing human knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. ... The University of Auckland is New Zealands largest research-based university. ... The R core team is a group of collaborators from all over the world who have write access to the R statistical programming language source code. ...


R is considered by its developers to be an implementation of the S programming language, with semantics derived from Scheme. The commercial implementation of S is S-PLUS. S is a statistical programming language developed by John Chambers of Bell Laboratories. ... Scheme is a functional programming language and a dialect of Lisp. ... S is a statistical programming language developed by John Chambers of Bell Laboratories. ...


R's source code is freely available under the GNU GPL and pre-compiled binary versions are provided for Windows, Macintosh, and many Unix operating systems. The GNU logo Wikisource has original text related to this article: GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft for use on personal computers, although versions of Windows designed for servers, embedded devices, and other platforms also exist. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...

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Features

R supports a wide variety of statistical techniques. R is also highly extensible through the use of packages, which are user-submitted libraries for specific functions or specific areas of study. A core set of packages are included with the installation of R, with over 700 more available at the comprehensive R archive network (CRAN) as of 2006. One of R's strengths is its graphical facilities, which produce publication-quality graphs that can include mathematical symbols. Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... CRAN is an acronym for the Comprehensive R Archive Network for the R programming language. ...


Bioinformatics and R

The bioinformatics community has seeded a successful effort to use R for the analysis of data from molecular biology laboratories. The bioconductor project started in the fall of 2001 provides R packages for the analysis of genomic data. e.g. Affymetrix and cDNA microarray object-oriented data handling and analysis tools. Map of the human X chromosome (from the NCBI website). ... This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... Look up Analysis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An analysis is a critical evaluation, usually made by breaking a subject (either material or intellectual) down into its constituent parts, then describing the parts and their relationship to the whole. ... Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. ... Biochemistry laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... BioConductor set out to collect and integrate software for the statistical analysis of wet-lab data in molecular biology. ... Affymetrix was founded by Stephen P.A. Fodor, Ph. ... In genetics, complementary DNA (cDNA) is DNA synthesized from a mature mRNA template. ... A DNA microarray (also DNA chip or gene chip in common speech) is a piece of glass or plastic on which pieces of DNA have been affixed in a microscopic array. ...


Comparison with other programs

Although R is mostly used by statisticians and other practitioners requiring an environment for statistical computation and software development, it can also be used as a general matrix calculation toolbox with comparable benchmark results [1] to GNU Octave and its proprietary counterpart, MATLAB. For other uses of the word octave see Octave (disambiguation) Octave is a free computer program for performing numerical computations, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU project. ... MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language. ...


It should not be confused with the R package [2], a collection of programs for multidimensional and spatial analysis available on Macintosh and VAX/VMS systems. OpenVMS V7. ...


The Gnumeric developers are cooperating with the R project for improving the accuracy of Gnumeric. Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop. ...


Productivity tools

There are several GUIs for R, including This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

Many editors have specialised modes for R, including JGR can refer to: Journal of Geophysical Research, a publication of the American Geophysical Union Joe Gibbs Racing, a group of NASCAR racing teams owned by Joe Gibbs Abbreviation for Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr. ... RKWard is an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R programming language, a very powerful, yet hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistic functions. ...

This article is about the text editor. ... an emacs mode for editing statistic languages like S. and interacting with statistic inferior process like S-Plus or R ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open-source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... Eclipse is a free software / open source platform-independent software framework for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications, as opposed to thin client browser-based applications. ... An integrated development environment (IDE), also known as integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment, is a type of computer software that assists computer programmers to develop software. ...

R newsletter

R provides a freely available downloadable newsletter [10] featuring statistical computing and development articles in the R programming language that might be of interest to both users and developers. It has been in press since January 2001 and is released two to three times a year. The editors are themselves volunteers within the R project. The newsletter is compiled and formatted using the LaTeX typesetting language. LaTeX style files which provide the format style ( .sty extension) and references (.bib extension) are also available for download. The extraction of Latex from a tree; Latex is used in Rubber production Latex, as found in nature, is the milky sap of many plants that coagulates on exposure to air. ... The extraction of Latex from a tree; Latex is used in Rubber production Latex, as found in nature, is the milky sap of many plants that coagulates on exposure to air. ... The BibTeX logo BibΤΕΧ, written as BibTeX in plain text, is a tool for formatting lists of references used by the LaTeX document preparation system. ...


See also

The Journal of Statistical Software (also JSS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers related to new open source software. ... CRAN is an acronym for the Comprehensive R Archive Network for the R programming language. ...

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