2. What R actually is?
• statisticians and other men of science needed to perform
advanced calculations easily without the need to learn
complicated programming methods
• more interactive than these:
3. What R actually is?
• John Chambers, Rick Becker, Doug Dunn, Paul Tukey,
Graham Wilkinson
• 1976 at Bell Laboratories
• „Old S”
4. What R actually is?
• 1979 - UNIX became main platform for S
• 1984 - source code was licensed by AT&T
• 1988 - „New S”
5. What R actually is?
• Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman
• 1993 at University of Auckland (announced on s-news)
• R
6. What R actually is?
• 1995 - GNU Public License
• 1996 - first release
• 1997 - creation of Core Team
7. What R actually is?
• Scheme interpreter
• S-like syntax
• vector based
• lazy evaluation of functions arguments
8. How R works?
• interpreted language
• over 12,500 packages (CRAN)
• built-in tools for graphic representation of computing
results
9. How R works?
• dynamic
• functional
• object-oriented
• reflective
10. How R works?
• easy to run on almost every OS
• frequent releases
• object-oriented
• reflective
29. Where and why R is used?
• It’s powerful
• Handles complex and large data easily
• can be used on High Performance Computer Clusters
• supports multicore task distribution
• Built-in high-end graphics tools
30. Where and why R is used?
• It’s flexible
• „normal” or complex statistics operations
• Big Data analysis, simulations
• Interactive tests, psychometrics
• Support for web applications
31. Where and why R is used?
• It’s well supported
• Stack Overflow community
• Core Team
• R-Bloggers
• r-help, r-devel