R is a programming language & software environment used by statisticians & data miners. RStudio is an integrated development environment for R.

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE's programming language of the year.

Compare the Python programming language and R to see how they differ and which is better for data science.

Programming languages: Julia touts its speed edge over Python and R Benchmarks suggest programming language Julia may be the best choice for big-data analysis using CSV format files.

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of services for the open source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics.