The R statistical environment
R was founded by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentlemen in 1994/1995. It is based on S, a programming language developed by John Chambers (Bell Laboratories), and Scheme. Since 1997, it has been internationally developed and distributed from Vienna over the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). R is nowadays the most popular and most used software in the statistical world. In addition, R is free and open source (under the GPL2). R is not only a statistical software, it is an environment for interactive computing with data supporting facilities to produce high-quality graphics. The exchange of code with others is easy since everybody can download R. This might also be one reason why modern methods are often exclusively developed in R. R is an object-oriented programming language and has interfaces to many other software products such as C, C++, Java, and interfaces to databases.
Useful information can be found on the following links.
Homepage: http://www.r-project...