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R

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R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization, made available as free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. It has been adopted widely in fields such as data mining, bioinformatics and data analysis. R is a scripting, interpreted language that provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, and it was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently developed by the R Development Core Team.

Facts
First Released
1993 1
Paradigm
Multi paradigm: procedural, object oriented, functional, array 1
Significance
Widely adopted for statistics, data mining, bioinformatics and data science. 1
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1. Wikipedia: R (programming language)
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  • Infobox: First appeared
    August 1993; 33 years ago (1993-08)
  • Infobox: Paradigm
    Multi-paradigm: procedural, object-oriented, functional, reflective, imperative, array
  • Article body, adoption discussion
    It has been widely adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, data analysis, and data science.
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