Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Last month, McKinney announced the founding of Ursa Labs, an innovation group intended to improve data-science tools. McKinney will ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

R vs Python: What are the main differences? Your email has been sent More people will find their way to Python for data science workloads, but there’s a case to for making R and Python complementary, ...

Data analytics software provider Periscope Data Inc. is updating its Unified Data Platform with support for the Python and R programming languages, as well as the Structured Query Language that’s used ...

It’s easy to automate the creation of Word documents with Quarto, a free, open-source technical publishing system that works with R, Python, and other programming languages. There are several ways to ...

The language R is in the midst of a sizzling resurgence this summer. One might hypothesize that this growth is coming at the expense of Python, by far the dominant language for data science. But some ...

But data science is a specific field, so while Python is emerging as the most popular language in the world, R still has its place and has advantages for those doing data analysis. Hoping to settle ...