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R Resources

Where to obtain R

R is available for free.  Download links can be found below.

Resources about R

Arts & Sciences Computing supports the use and development of the R statistical software package. Accordingly, we provide the following links to resources about R.  The principal designer of S was John Chambers who works at Bell Labs and is a consulting professor of statistics at Stanford University.

Founders/What is R?

R is an implementation of the S programming language created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman.  It is often said that S is the language, R is the dialect.

Documentation

Software

Blogs

Videos

Tutorials/Introductions

Status of the R project

Building R packages

Scientific Applications for R

 

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