As of February of this year, R has been rated as the 13th most used programming language in the world. Before that, it was in the top 10, so we can conclude that R is used quite often around the ...

The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the ...

The top ten languages in TIOBE’s Programming Community index for August 2020. Image: TIOBE Speculation has centered on just why R has become more popular as of late.

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R is a programming language developed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman (hence the name, R) in 1993 that is mainly used for analyzing statistics and graphical representation.

The R programming language has been around since the early 90s. While it’s always been a workhorse among those charged with sorting and manipulating large data sets, the open source language may ...

Based on the Bell Labs S language, R does a lot more than handle statistics. While you’re likely to build libraries of R functions, you’re not likely to keep much code around.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.