The R Project in Statistical Computing
Brian David Ripley · MSOR Connections · 2001
Ris an Open Source environment for statistical computing and graphics ‘not unlike ’ version 3 of the S system developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent), which is the basis of the commercial system S-PLUS ® 1 from the Insightful Corporation. 2 This article describes the R philosophy and current status: it is definitely not a review as the author is a