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 ...

Open source R is key for big data analytics, and Microsoft has infused many of its tools with the language One of Microsoft’s more interesting recent acquisitions was Revolution Analytics, a company ...

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, ...

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE’s programming language of the year. C remains the top programming language, according to the August index from ...

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; ...

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 ...

One of the most important constituencies in the development of advanced cognitive computing applications these days is the data scientists trying to combine massive amounts of data and various types ...