What is R written in?
What R is used for
R is a language built for statistics, data analysis, and visualization, used heavily in academia, bioinformatics, and quantitative research. The tidyverse and ggplot2 make it a favorite for exploratory analysis and publication-quality charts.
Notable software: statistical analyses across science and finance, and reproducible reports built with R Markdown and Shiny dashboards.
Quick Facts
- Designed by
- Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman
- First released
- 1993
- Typing
- dynamic
- License
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- Website
- www.r-project.org
About R
R is a programming language for statistical analysis. It is a dynamically typed and garbage-collected language that is executed directly by an interpreter. It supports functional and imperative programming.
R first appeared in 1993 and was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. R has a large, active user base today.
How R is implemented
In the Language Lineage dataset, its runtime is implemented in C and Fortran.
R in the language family tree
R drew on ideas from Lisp and S.
Sources: Wikipedia · Wikidata · Official site
Frequently Asked Questions
Evidence Sources
- https://www.r-project.org/
- https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)
- R on Wikidata (Q206904)