Arguing about which programming language is the best one is a favorite pastime among software developers. The tricky part, of course, is defining a set of criteria for "best." With software ...

The R programming language is an important tool for development in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With machines becoming more important as data generators, the popularity of the ...

For those who might be wondering, the programming language was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. Furthermore, note that most of the R libraries are written using R, but for others, C ...

The R programming language has been around since the early 90s. While it’s always been a workhorse among those charged with sorting and manipulating large data sets, the open source language may only ...

Open source R is key for big data analytics, and Microsoft has infused many of its tools with the language One of Microsoft’s more interesting recent acquisitions was Revolution Analytics, a company ...

Microsoft this week took the next step following its acquisition of Revolution Analytics last year by unwrapping an advanced-analytics platform of its own based on the open source R programming ...

Do you want to improve your R skills? Here are my favorite R language resources for users at any level. [This story is part of Computerworld’s “Beginner’s guide to R.” You’ll find links to the whole ...

Last week Microsoft released R Server (MRS) 9.0. Ironically, I was so busy working with R Server for a conference workshop I was presenting at the end of the week, that I needed to wait until this ...

Microsoft is giving developers and students a free crack at its new server software for the R programming language. In a post to the company’s Machine Learning blog, Microsoft Corporate Vice President ...

How best to manage data using R programming. While the analytics world is being transformed by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, marketers are discovering a potential new solution to an old ...