R programming language

The R programming language, sometimes described as "GNU S", is a mathematical language and environment used for statistical analysis and display.

It is based upon S which was developed by John Chambers of Bell Laboratories and described in the paper "Evolution of the S Language" [1] (http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/doc/96.7.ps). R is considered by its developers to be an implementation of S, with semantics derived from Scheme. The commercial implementation of S is S-PLUS [2] (http://www.insightful.com/products/splus).

R is freely available under the GNU GPL and is available for Windows, Macintosh, and many Unix operating systems.

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