About R programming, via wikipedia
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R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R
Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for
developing statistical software and data analysis. Polls, data mining surveys, and studies of scholarly literature
databases show substantial increases in popularity; as of September 2020, R ranks 9th in the TIOBE index, a measure
of popularity of programming languages.
A GNU package,the official R software environment is written primarily in C, Fortran, and R itself (thus, it is
partially self-hosting) and is freely available under the GNU General Public License. Pre-compiled executables are
provided for various operating systems. Although R has a command line interface, there are several third-party graphical
user interfaces, such as RStudio, an integrated development environment, and Jupyter, a notebook interface.
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