The R Programming Language
2014
R is an open source, open development computing environment and language for statistical computing and graphics 1. R is popular in biostatistics, bioinformatics, financial market analysis, social network analysis and geospatial modeling. As a programming language, R is expressive and compact with a large collection of powerful functions and tools and operators for data representation, analysis and display. On-line tutorials are available for learning both basic and advanced R programming 2. Some simple examples: x<-5 # create an object x and assign # it the integer value 5