The R Core Team was formed in 1997 to further develop the language.
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In 1995, Martin Maechler convinced Ihaka and Gentleman to make R free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. It was named partly after the first names of the first two R authors and partly as a play on the name of S. In 1991 Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, embarked on an S implementation, independent of S-PLUS. Many codes written for S-PLUS run unaltered in R. A commercial version of S was offered as S-PLUS starting in 1988. S was created by John Chambers in 1976 while at Bell Labs.
R is an implementation of the S programming language combined with lexical scoping semantics. Multiple third-party graphical user interfaces are available, such as RStudio, an integrated development environment and Jupyter, a notebook interface. Precompiled executables are provided for various operating systems. It is written primarily in C, Fortran, and R itself (partially self-hosting) and is available under the GNU General Public License. The official R software environment is a GNU package.
Polls, data mining surveys, and studies of scholarly literature databases show that R is highly popular since AugustĀ 2021, R ranks 14th in the TIOBE index, a measure of programming language popularity. It is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. It is supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.