R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. It is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical soft ware and data analysis.More..
R was
first implemented in the early 1990's by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, both faculty members
at the University of Auckland. Robert and Ross established R as an open source project in 1995. Since 1997, the R project has been managed by the R Core
Group. And in February 2000, R 1.0.
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| Robert Gentleman |
Example:
# My first program in R Programming
myString <- "Hello, World!"
print ( myString)