"R Language" news, interviews, and features

News about R Language

• IBM joins R Consortium

  The company is expected to announce the move at the Apache Spark Summit

• Update: Google, Microsoft, Oracle back new R Consortium at Linux Foundation

  Google, Microsoft and Oracle among founding members

Features about R Language

• Beginner's guide to R: Syntax quirks you'll want to know

  Part 5 of our hands-on guide covers some R mysteries you'll need to understand.

• Beginner's guide to R: Get your data into R

  In part 2 of our hands-on guide to the hot data-analysis environment, we provide some tips on how to import data in various formats, both ...

• Why R? The pros and cons of the R language

  Package ecosystem and graphics are strengths; security and memory management are weaknesses