Monday, April 2, 2012

The R programming language for programmers coming from other programming languages

Learning R?  An introduction and comparison against other common programming languages.

R is more than a programming language. It is an interactive environment for doing statistics. I find it more helpful to think of R as having a programming language than being a programming language. The R language is the scripting language for the R environment, just as VBA is the scripting language for Microsoft Excel. Some of the more unusual features of the R language begin to make sense when viewed from this perspective.

The R programming language for programmers coming from other programming languages

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