R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been widely adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, data analysis, and data science.

The R programming language has become the de facto programming language for data science. Its flexibility, power, sophistication, and expressiveness have made it an invaluable tool for …

Jul 27, 2020 · As an update to this post, here's a list of the major events in R history since its creation: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert …

Jul 19, 2020 · If you’re interested in learning data science, it’s good to have a baseline knowledge of the history of R and RStudio as added context. Along with Python, R is one of the most …

May 4, 2024 · The roots of R can be traced back to the early 1990s when two statisticians, Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, began developing a …

In the following paragraphs, we provide a brief history of R, followed by a description of the main R resources and repositories. We also provide a description of the R core idea of merging data …

Jun 27, 2024 · August 2023 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first public release of the R programming language. To celebrate this, and to show how far the language has evolved …

Oct 2, 2024 · R was first conceived as an implementation of the S language, but with its own improvements and features. They wanted to create a free, open-source alternative to S that …

1991: Created in New Zealand by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. Their experience developing R is documented in a 1996 JCGS paper. 1993: First announcement of R to the …

Feb 29, 2000 · The article by Nick Thieme looks back at the 25 years since the R language was first conceived at Auckland University in 1992.