R
The language of statistics, built for data analysis, modelling and charts. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- R Core Team
- Created by
- Ross Ihaka, Robert Gentleman
- First release
- 1993
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.r-project.org
- Paradigms
- Functional, Procedural, Object-oriented
- Typing
- Dynamic
- Type strength
- Weak
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Interpreted
- Main implementation
- GNU R
- Concurrency
- Single threaded, parallel packages
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- CRAN
- Used for
- Data and AI, Scientific computing
- Specification
- None, GNU R is the reference