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R programming language

The R programming language, sometimes described as "GNU S", is a mathematical language and environment used for statistical analysis and display.

It is based upon S which was developed by John Chambers of Bell Laboratories and described in the paper "Evolution of the S Language" [1]. R is considered by its developers to be an implementation of S, with semantics derived from Scheme.

R is freely available under the GNU GPL and is available for Windows, Macintosh, and many Unix operating systems.

References and External links

• The R Project for Statistical Computing
• The CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) Project
• Web-based interface to R
• The R Reference Manual - Base Package by the R Development Core Team. ISBN 0-9546120-0-0 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-9546120-1-9 (vol. 2)

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