Arguing about which programming language is the best one is a favorite pastime among software developers. The tricky part, of course, is defining a set of criteria for "best." With software ...

For those who might be wondering, the programming language was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. Furthermore, note that most of the R libraries are written using R, but for others, C ...

Hard to believe, but the R programming language has been with us since 1993. A quarter century has now passed since the authors Gentleman and Ihaka originally conceived the R platform as an ...

Python stays far ahead after another dip; C holds second, Java retakes third from C++, and R rises to eighth as SQL slips, ...

This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

Big-data company Databricks Inc. today updated its MLflow machine learning toolkit with support for the R programming language and other new features aimed at boosting its utility. Databricks had ...

We're at the beginning of a new wave of numeric data -- and the new R language provides a powerful array of tools to make sense of it all We tend to think of programming languages as general purpose, ...

Microsoft is giving developers and students a free crack at its new server software for the R programming language. In a post to the company’s Machine Learning blog, Microsoft Corporate Vice President ...

In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language. R is one of ...