R is a programming language oriented on statistical and data science computations. Although R is quite old, its popularity has been growing in recent years together with more projects oriented on statistics and predictions. Starting in 2016, Microsoft introduced R Services as a part of SQL Server. SQL server 2017 then renamed R Services to Machine Learning Services because Python support was added to SQL Server 2017.
While R is very popular, many data scientists warn against using languages such as R or Python. The main argument is that both languages are too syntax-oriented, hence the developer handles the source code and forgets to solve the assigned statistical or data science problem. The same data scientists prefer more drag-and-drop-oriented technologies. For developers who mainly want to work with Microsoft technologies but are not familiar...
