Savvy marketers are making use of R programming. The value of R to business intelligence stems from evaluating advanced strategies based on data, discovering new insights and relationships that can be ...

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...

This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE’s programming language of the year. C remains the top programming language, according to the August index from ...

Looking to get into statistical programming but lack industry experience? We spoke with several statistical programmers from diverse backgrounds, and one thing became clear—there’s no single path to ...

But one tool that I think marketers can and should get to know more intimately is a growing developer favorite: R programming. R programming is an open source language used for statistical modeling ...

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 ...