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R Programming Language

R is an open-source programming language widely used for statistical software and data analysis, designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. It supports various platforms, offers extensive libraries, and integrates well with other programming languages, making it popular in the data science job market. Despite some disadvantages like slower performance compared to other languages, R's capabilities in statistical analysis and data visualization make it a powerful tool for researchers and analysts.

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R Programming Language

R is an open-source programming language widely used for statistical software and data analysis, designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. It supports various platforms, offers extensive libraries, and integrates well with other programming languages, making it popular in the data science job market. Despite some disadvantages like slower performance compared to other languages, R's capabilities in statistical analysis and data visualization make it a powerful tool for researchers and analysts.

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R Programming Language – Introduction


R is an open-source programming language that is widely used as a


statistical software and data analysis tool. R generally comes with
the Command-line interface. R is available across widely used
platforms like Windows, Linux, and macOS. Also, the R programming
language is the latest cutting-edge tool.

It was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the


University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently being
developed by the R Development Core Team.

R programming language is an implementation of the S


programming language
R Programming Language

What is R Programming Language?


 R programming is used as a leading tool for machine learning,
statistics, and data analysis. Objects, functions, and packages can
easily be created by R.
 It’s a platform-independent language. This means it can be
applied to all operating systems.
 It’s an open-source free language. That means anyone can install
it in any organization without purchasing a license.
 R programming language is not only a statistic package but also
allows us to integrate with other languages (C, C++). Thus, you
can easily interact with many data sources and statistical
packages.
 The R programming language has a vast community of users and
it’s growing day by day.
 R is currently one of the most requested programming languages
in the Data Science job market which makes it the hottest trend
nowadays
 It was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently being
developed by the R Development Core Team.
 R programming language is an implementation of the S
programming language. It also combines with lexical scoping
semantics inspired by Scheme. Moreover, the project was
conceived in 1992, with an initial version released in 1995 and a
stable beta version in 2000.

Why Use R?
 Statistical Analysis: R is designed for analysis and It provides
an extensive collection of graphical and statistical techniques, By
making a preferred choice for statisticians and data analysts.
 Open Source: R is an open – source software, which means it is
freely available to anyone. It can be accessble by a vibrant
community of users and developers.
 Data Visulaization : R boasts an array of libraries like ggplot2
that enable the creation of high-quality, customizable data
visualizations.
 Data Manipulation : R offers tools that are for data
manipulation and transformation. For example: IT simplifies the
process of filtering , summarizing and transforming data.
 Integration : R can be easily integrate with other programming
languages and data sources. IT has connectors to various
databases and can be used in conjunction with python, SQL and
other tools.
 Community and Packages: R has vast ecosystem of packages
that extend its functionality. There are packages that can help
you accomplish needs of analytics.

Features of R Programming Language


 R Packages: One of the major features of R is it has a wide
availability of libraries. R has CRAN(Comprehensive R Archive
Network), which is a repository holding more than 10, 0000
packages.
 Distributed Computing: Distributed computing is a model in
which components of a software system are shared among
multiple computers to improve efficiency and performance. Two
new packages ddR and multiplier used for distributed
programming in R were released in November 2015.
Statistical Features of R
 Basic Statistics: The most common basic statistics terms are
the mean, mode, and median. These are all known as “Measures
of Central Tendency.” So using the R language we can measure
central tendency very easily.
 Static graphics: R is rich with facilities for creating and
developing interesting static graphics. R contains functionality for
many plot types including graphic maps, mosaic plots, biplots,
and the list goes on.
 Probability distributions: Probability distributions play a vital
role in statistics and by using R we can easily handle various
types of probability distributions such as Binomial Distribution,
Normal Distribution, Chi-squared Distribution, and many more.
 Data analysis: It provides a large, coherent, and integrated
collection of tools for data analysis.
Advantages of R
 R is the most comprehensive statistical analysis package. As new
technology and concepts often appear first in R.
 As R programming language is an open source. Thus, you can run
R anywhere and at any time.
 R programming language is suitable for GNU/Linux and Windows
operating systems.
 R programming is cross-platform and runs on any operating
system.
 In R, everyone is welcome to provide new packages, bug fixes,
and code enhancements.
Disadvantages of R
 In the R programming language, the standard of some packages
is less than perfect.
 Although, R commands give little pressure on memory
management. So R programming language may consume all
available memory.
 In R basically, nobody to complain if something doesn’t work.
 R programming language is much slower than other programming
languages such as Python and MATLAB.
Applications of R
 We use R for Data Science. It gives us a broad variety of libraries
related to statistics. It also provides the environment for
statistical computing and design.
 R is used by many quantitative analysts as its programming tool.
Thus, it helps in data importing and cleaning.
 R is the most prevalent language. So many data analysts and
research programmers use it. Hence, it is used as a fundamental
tool for finance.
 Tech giants like Google, Facebook, Bing, Twitter, Accenture,
Wipro, and many more using R nowadays.
Conclusion
In conclusion , R programming language has emerged as powerful
and versatile too for data analysis, statistical modelling and machine
learning. R remains the top choice for data scientists, statisticians
and researchers across various domain.

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