R (programming language)

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R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics and data analysis/data science.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

The core R language is augmented by a large number of extension software packages, which contain reusable code, documentation, and sample data.

R software is open-source and free software. R is a GNU Project and licensed under the GNU General Public License.<ref name="gnugpl">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is written primarily in C, Fortran, and R itself. Precompiled executables are provided for various operating systems.

As an interpreted language, R has a native command line interface. Moreover, multiple third-party graphical user interfaces are available, such as RStudio—an integrated development environment—and Jupyter—a notebook interface.

History

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R was started by professors Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman as a programming language to teach introductory statistics at the University of Auckland.<ref name="otago_pg12">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The language was inspired by the S programming language, with most S programs able to run unaltered in R.<ref name="R FAQ"/> The language was also inspired by Scheme's lexical scoping, allowing for local variables.<ref name="Morandat"/>

The name of the language, R, comes from being both an S language successor as well as the shared first letter of the authors, Ross and Robert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In August 1993, Ihaka and Gentleman posted a binary of R on StatLib — a data archive website.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the same time, they announced the posting on the s-news mailing list.<ref name="Interface98">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 5 December 1997, R became a GNU project when version 0.60 was released.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 29 February 2000, the 1.0 version was released.<ref name="otago_pg18">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Violin plot created from the R visualization package ggplot2

R packages are collections of functions, documentation, and data that expand R.<ref name="rds_pagexvii">Template:Cite book</ref> For example, packages can add reporting features (using packages like RMarkdown, Quarto,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> knitr, and Sweave) and the capability to implement various statistical techniques (such as linear, generalized linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, spatial analysis, time-series analysis, and clustering). Perceived easy package installation and usability have contributed to the language's adoption in data science.<ref name="Chambers2020">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Immediately available when starting R, base packages provide the basic and necessary syntax and commands for programming, computing, graphics production, basic arithmetic, and statistical functionality.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

An example R package is the tidyverse package, which bundles several subsidiary packages to provide a common interface. It specializes in tasks related to accessing and processing "tidy data",<ref>Wickham, Hadley (2014). "Tidy Data" (PDF). Journal of Statistical Software. 59 (10). doi:10.18637/jss.v059.i10.</ref> which are data contained in a two-dimensional table with a single row for each observation and a single column for each variable.<ref name="rds">Template:Cite book</ref>

Installing a package occurs only once. For example, to install the tidyverse package:<ref name="rds" /> <syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > install.packages("tidyverse") </syntaxhighlight>

To load the functions, data, and documentation of a package, one executes the library() function. To load tidyverse:Template:Efn <syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > # Package name can be enclosed in quotes > library("tidyverse")

> # But also the package name can be called without quotes > library(tidyverse) </syntaxhighlight>

The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) was founded in 1997 by Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch to host R's source code, executable files, documentation, and user-created packages.<ref name=":10" /> Its name and scope mimic the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) and the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).<ref name=":10">Template:Cite journal</ref> CRAN originally had three mirroring sites and twelve contributed packages.<ref>Template:Cite Q.</ref> Template:As of, it has 99 mirrors<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and 21,513 contributed packages.<ref name=":9">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Packages are also available on repositories like R-Forge, Omegahat, and GitHub.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On the CRAN web site as a form of guidance, Task Views lists packages on CRAN that are relevant for tasks related to a certain topics, such as causal inference, finance, genetics, high-performance computing, machine learning, medical imaging, meta-analysis, social sciences, and spatial statistics.

The Bioconductor project provides packages for genomic data analysis, complementary DNA, microarray, and high-throughput sequencing methods.

Community

There are three main groups that help support R software development:

• The R Core Team was founded in 1997 to maintain the R source code.
• The R Foundation for Statistical Computing was founded in April 2003 to provide financial support.
• The R Consortium is a Linux Foundation project to develop R infrastructure.

The R Journal is an open access, academic journal which features short to medium-length articles on the use and development of R. It includes articles on packages, programming tips, CRAN news, and foundation news.

The R community hosts many conferences and in-person meetups.Template:Efn These groups include:

• UseR!: an annual international R user conference (website)
• Directions in Statistical Computing (DSC) (website)
• R-Ladies: an organization to promote gender diversity in the R community (website)
• SatRdays: R-focused conferences held on Saturdays (website)
• R Conference (website)
• posit::conf (formerly known as rstudio::conf) (website)

On social media sites like Twitter, the hashtag #rstats can be used to keep up with new developments in the R community.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Examples

Hello, World!

"Hello, World!" program: <syntaxhighlight lang="rout">> print("Hello, World!") [1] "Hello, World!"</syntaxhighlight>Alternatively:<syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > cat("Hello, World!") Hello, World! </syntaxhighlight>

Basic syntax

The following examples illustrate the basic syntax of the language and use of the command-line interface.Template:Efn

In R, the generally preferred assignment operator is an arrow made from two characters <-, although = can be used in some cases.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

<syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > x <- 1:6 # Create a numeric vector in the current environment > y <- x^2 # Create vector based on the values in x. > print(y) # Print the vector’s contents. [1] 1 4 9 16 25 36

> z <- x + y # Create a new vector that is the sum of x and y > z # Return the contents of z to the current environment. [1] 2 6 12 20 30 42

> z_matrix <- matrix(z, nrow = 3) # Create a new matrix that turns the vector z into a 3x2 matrix object > z_matrix

    [,1] [,2]

[1,] 2 20 [2,] 6 30 [3,] 12 42

> 2 * t(z_matrix) - 2 # Transpose the matrix, multiply every element by 2, subtract 2 from each element in the matrix, and return the results to the terminal.

    [,1] [,2] [,3]

[1,] 2 10 22 [2,] 38 58 82

> new_df <- data.frame(t(z_matrix), row.names = c("A", "B")) # Create a new data.frame object that contains the data from a transposed z_matrix, with row names 'A' and 'B' > names(new_df) <- c("X", "Y", "Z") # Set the column names of new_df as X, Y, and Z. > print(new_df) # Print the current results.

  X  Y  Z

A 2 6 12 B 20 30 42

> new_df$Z # Output the Z column [1] 12 42

> new_df$Z == new_df['Z'] && new_df[3] == new_df$Z # The data.frame column Z can be accessed using $Z, ['Z'], or [3] syntax and the values are the same. [1] TRUE

> attributes(new_df) # Print attributes information about the new_df object $names [1] "X" "Y" "Z"

$row.names [1] "A" "B"

$class [1] "data.frame"

> attributes(new_df)$row.names <- c("one", "two") # Access and then change the row.names attribute; can also be done using rownames() > new_df

    X  Y  Z

one 2 6 12 two 20 30 42

</syntaxhighlight>

Structure of a function

R is able to create functions to add new functionality for reuse.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Objects created within the body of the function (which are enclosed by curly brackets) remain only accessible from within the function, and any data type may be returned. In R, almost all functions and all user-defined functions are closures.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Example of creating a function to perform some arithmetic calculation: <syntaxhighlight lang="r"># The input parameters are x and y.

1. The function, being named f, returns a linear combination of x and y.

f <- function(x, y) {

 z <- 3 * x + 4 * y

 # An explicit return() statement is optional, could be replaced with simply `z`.
 return(z)

}

1. Alternatively, the last statement executed is implicitly returned.

f <- function(x, y) 3 * x + 4 * y</syntaxhighlight>

Usage output: <syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > f(1, 2) # 3 * 1 + 4 * 2 = 3 + 8 [1] 11

> f(c(1, 2, 3), c(5, 3, 4)) # Element-wise calculation [1] 23 18 25

> f(1:3, 4) # Equivalent to f(c(1, 2, 3), c(4, 4, 4)) [1] 19 22 25 </syntaxhighlight>

It is possible to define functions to be used as infix operators with the special syntax `%name%` where "name" is the function variable name: <syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > `%sumx2y2%` <- function(e1, e2) {e1 ^ 2 + e2 ^ 2} > 1:3 %sumx2y2% -(1:3) [1] 2 8 18 </syntaxhighlight>

Since version 4.1.0 functions can be written in a short notation, which is useful for passing anonymous functions to higher-order functions:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> <syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > sapply(1:5, \(i) i^2) # here \(i) is the same as function(i) [1] 1 4 9 16 25 </syntaxhighlight>

Native pipe operator

In R version 4.1.0, a native pipe operator, |>, was introduced.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This operator allows users to chain functions together one after another, instead of a nested function call.

<syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > nrow(subset(mtcars, cyl == 4)) # Nested without the pipe character [1] 11

> mtcars |> subset(cyl == 4) |> nrow() # Using the pipe character [1] 11 </syntaxhighlight>

Another alternative to nested functions, in contrast to using the pipe character, is using intermediate objects:

<syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > mtcars_subset_rows <- subset(mtcars, cyl == 4) > num_mtcars_subset <- nrow(mtcars_subset_rows) > print(num_mtcars_subset) [1] 11 </syntaxhighlight>While the pipe operator can produce code that is easier to read, it has been advised to pipe together at most 10 to 15 lines and chunk code into sub-tasks which are saved into objects with meaningful names.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Here is an example with fewer than 10 lines that some readers may still struggle to grasp without intermediate named steps:<syntaxhighlight lang="r" line="1">(\(x, n = 42, key = c(letters, LETTERS, " ", ":", ")"))

   strsplit(x, "")1 |>
   (Vectorize(\(chr) which(chr == key) - 1))() |>
   (`+`)(n) |>
   (`%%`)(length(key)) |>
   (\(i) key[i + 1])() |>
   paste(collapse = "")

)("duvFkvFksnvEyLkHAErnqnoyr")</syntaxhighlight>

Object-oriented programming

The R language has native support for object-oriented programming. There are two native frameworks, the so-called S3 and S4 systems. The former, being more informal, supports single dispatch on the first argument and objects are assigned to a class by just setting a "class" attribute in each object. The latter is a Common Lisp Object System (CLOS)-like system of formal classes (also derived from S) and generic methods that supports multiple dispatch and multiple inheritance<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the example, summary is a generic function that dispatches to different methods depending on whether its argument is a numeric vector or a "factor": <syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> > data <- c("a", "b", "c", "a", NA) > summary(data)

  Length     Class      Mode 
       5 character character 

> summary(as.factor(data))

  a    b    c NA's 
  2    1    1    1 

</syntaxhighlight>

Modeling and plotting

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Diagnostic plots from plotting "model" (q.v. "plot.lm()" function). Notice the mathematical notation allowed in labels (lower left plot).

The R language has built-in support for data modeling and graphics. The following example shows how R can generate and plot a linear model with residuals. <syntaxhighlight lang="r">

1. Create x and y values

x <- 1:6 y <- x^2

1. Linear regression model y = A + B * x

model <- lm(y ~ x)

1. Display an in-depth summary of the model

summary(model)

1. Create a 2 by 2 layout for figures

par(mfrow = c(2, 2))

1. Output diagnostic plots of the model

plot(model) </syntaxhighlight>

Output: <syntaxhighlight lang="rout"> Residuals:

     1       2       3       4       5       6       7       8      9      10
3.3333 -0.6667 -2.6667 -2.6667 -0.6667  3.3333

Coefficients:

           Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   

(Intercept) -9.3333 2.8441 -3.282 0.030453 * x 7.0000 0.7303 9.585 0.000662 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.055 on 4 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.9583, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9478 F-statistic: 91.88 on 1 and 4 DF, p-value: 0.000662 </syntaxhighlight>

Mandelbrot set

File:Mandelbrot Creation Animation.gif

"Mandelbrot.gif" graphic created in R. (Note: Colors differ from actual output.)

This Mandelbrot set example highlights the use of complex numbers. It models the first 20 iterations of the equation z = z2 + c, where c represents different complex constants.

Install the package that provides the write.gif() function beforehand: <syntaxhighlight lang="r"> install.packages("caTools") </syntaxhighlight>

R Source code: <syntaxhighlight lang="r"> library(caTools)

jet.colors <-

   colorRampPalette(
       c("green", "pink", "#007FFF", "cyan", "#7FFF7F",
         "white", "#FF7F00", "red", "#7F0000"))

dx <- 1500 # define width dy <- 1400 # define height

C <-

   complex(
           real = rep(seq(-2.2, 1.0, length.out = dx), each = dy),
           imag = rep(seq(-1.2, 1.2, length.out = dy), times = dx)
           )

1. reshape as matrix of complex numbers

C <- matrix(C, dy, dx)

1. initialize output 3D array

X <- array(0, c(dy, dx, 20))

Z <- 0

1. loop with 20 iterations

for (k in 1:20) {

 # the central difference equation
 Z <- Z^2 + C

 # capture the results
 X[, , k] <- exp(-abs(Z))

}

write.gif(

   X,
   "Mandelbrot.gif",
   col = jet.colors,
   delay = 100)

</syntaxhighlight>

Version names

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CD of R Version 1.0.0, autographed by the core team of R, photographed R in Quebec City in 2019

All R version releases from 2.14.0 onward have codenames that make reference to Peanuts comics and films.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

In 2018, core R developer Peter Dalgaard presented a history of R releases since 1997.<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Some notable early releases before the named releases include:

• Version 1.0.0 released on 29 February 2000 (2000-02-29), a leap day
• Version 2.0.0 released on 4 October 2004 (2004-10-04), "which at least had a nice ring to it"<ref name=":2" />

The idea of naming R version releases was inspired by the Debian and Ubuntu version naming system. Dalgaard also noted that another reason for the use of Peanuts references for R codenames is because, "everyone in statistics is a P-nut".<ref name=":2" />

R release codenames

Version	Release date	Name	Peanuts reference	Reference
4.5.0	2025-04-11	How About a Twenty-Six	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.4.3	2025-02-28	Trophy Case	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.4.2	2024-10-31	Pile of Leaves	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.4.1	2024-06-14	Race for Your Life	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.4.0	2024-04-24	Puppy Cup	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.3.3	2024-02-29	Angel Food Cake	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.3.2	2023-10-31	Eye Holes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.3.1	2023-06-16	Beagle Scouts	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.3.0	2023-04-21	Already Tomorrow	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.2.3	2023-03-15	Shortstop Beagle	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.2.2	2022-10-31	Innocent and Trusting	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.2.1	2022-06-23	Funny-Looking Kid	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.2.0	2022-04-22	Vigorous Calisthenics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.1.3	2022-03-10	One Push-Up	<ref name=":1" />	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.1.2	2021-11-01	Bird Hippie	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	<ref name="Rd R 4.1.2 is released"/>
4.1.1	2021-08-10	Kick Things	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.1.0	2021-05-18	Camp Pontanezen	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.0.5	2021-03-31	Shake and Throw	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.0.4	2021-02-15	Lost Library Book	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.0.3	2020-10-10	Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.0.2	2020-06-22	Taking Off Again	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.0.1	2020-06-06	See Things Now	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
4.0.0	2020-04-24	Arbor Day	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.6.3	2020-02-29	Holding the Windsock	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.6.2	2019-12-12	Dark and Stormy Night	See It was a dark and stormy night#Literature<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.6.1	2019-07-05	Action of the Toes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.6.0	2019-04-26	Planting of a Tree	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.5.3	2019-03-11	Great Truth	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.5.2	2018-12-20	Eggshell Igloos	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.5.1	2018-07-02	Feather Spray	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.5.0	2018-04-23	Joy in Playing	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.4.4	2018-03-15	Someone to Lean On	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.4.3	2017-11-30	Kite-Eating Tree	See Kite-Eating Tree<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.4.2	2017-09-28	Short Summer	See It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.4.1	2017-06-30	Single Candle	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.4.0	2017-04-21	You Stupid Darkness	<ref name="auto"/>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.3.3	2017-03-06	Another Canoe	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.3.2	2016-10-31	Sincere Pumpkin Patch	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.3.1	2016-06-21	Bug in Your Hair	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.3.0	2016-05-03	Supposedly Educational	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.2.5	2016-04-11	Very, Very Secure Dishes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.2.4	2016-03-11	Very Secure Dishes	<ref name=":0" />	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.2.3	2015-12-10	Wooden Christmas-Tree	See A Charlie Brown Christmas<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.2.2	2015-08-14	Fire Safety	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.2.1	2015-06-18	World-Famous Astronaut	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.2.0	2015-04-16	Full of Ingredients	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.1.3	2015-03-09	Smooth Sidewalk	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Page needed	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.1.2	2014-10-31	Pumpkin Helmet	See You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.1.1	2014-07-10	Sock it to Me	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.1.0	2014-04-10	Spring Dance	<ref name="auto1"/>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.0.3	2014-03-06	Warm Puppy	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.0.2	2013-09-25	Frisbee Sailing	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.0.1	2013-05-16	Good Sport	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3.0.0	2013-04-03	Masked Marvel	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2.15.3	2013-03-01	Security Blanket	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2.15.2	2012-10-26	Trick or Treat	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2.15.1	2012-06-22	Roasted Marshmallows	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2.15.0	2012-03-30	Easter Beagle	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2.14.2	2012-02-29	Gift-Getting Season	See It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2.14.1	2011-12-22	December Snowflakes	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2.14.0	2011-10-31	Great Pumpkin	See It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
r-devel	N/A	Unsuffered Consequences	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	<ref name=":2" />

Interfaces

R comes installed with a command line console, but it is not the only way to interface with R.

• By integrated development environment (IDE):
  • R.app<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Rattle GUI
  • R Commander
  • RKWard
  • RStudio
  • Tinn-R<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• By general purpose IDEs:
  • Eclipse via the StatET plugin
  • Visual Studio via R Tools for Visual Studio.
• By source-code editors:
  • Emacs
  • Vim via the Nvim-R plugin
  • Kate
  • LyX via Sweave
  • WinEdt (website)
  • Jupyter (website)
• By other scripting languages:
  • Python (website)
  • Perl (website)
  • Ruby (source code)
  • F# (website)
  • Julia (source code).
• By general purpose programming languages:
  • Java via the Rserve socket server
  • .NET C# (website)

Statistical frameworks which use R in the background include Jamovi and JASP.Template:Fact

Implementations

The main R implementation is written primarily in C, Fortran, and R itself. Other implementations include:

• pretty quick R (pqR), by Radford M. Neal, attempts to improve memory management.
• Renjin is an implementation of R for the Java Virtual Machine.
• CXXR and Riposte<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> are implementations of R written in C++.
• Oracle's FastR is an implementation of R, built on GraalVM.
• TIBCO Software, creator of S-PLUS, wrote TERR — an R implementation to integrate with Spotfire.<ref>Jackson, Joab (16 May 2013). TIBCO offers free R to the enterprise. PC World. Retrieved 20 July 2015.</ref>

Microsoft R Open (MRO) was an R implementation. As of 30 June 2021, Microsoft started to phase out MRO in favor of the CRAN distribution.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Commercial support

Although R is an open-source project, some companies provide commercial support:

• Oracle provides commercial support for the Big Data Appliance, which integrates R into its other products.
• IBM provides commercial support for in-Hadoop execution of R.

See also

• Comparison of numerical-analysis software
• Comparison of statistical packages
• List of numerical-analysis software
• List of statistical software
• Rmetrics

Further reading

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External links

• R Technical Papers
• Big Book of R, curated list of R-related programming books
• Books Related to R - R Project, partially annotated curated list of books relating to R or S.