R
Terminal window for R
ParadigmsMulti-paradigm: procedural, object-oriented, functional, reflective, imperative, array1
Designed byRoss Ihaka and Robert Gentleman
DeveloperR Core Team
First appearedAugust 1993
Stable release4.6.12 / 24 June 2026
Typing disciplineDynamic
Platformarm64 and x86-64
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later3
Filename extensions• .R 4
• .r
• .rdata
• .rhistory
• .rds
• .rda 5
Websiter-project.org
Influenced by
• Lisp
• S 6
• Scheme 1
Influenced
• Julia 7
• pandas 8
• R Programming at Wikibooks

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Footnotes

  1. Morandat, Frances; Hill, Brandon; Osvald, Leo; Vitek, Jan (11 June 2012). “Evaluating the design of the R language: objects and functions for data analysis”. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. 2012: 104–131. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31057-7_6. Retrieved 17 May 2016 – via SpringerLink. 2

  2. “[Rd] R 4.6.1 is released”.

  3. “R - Free Software Directory”. directory.fsf.org. Retrieved 26 January 2024.

  4. “R scripts”. mercury.webster.edu. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

  5. “R Data Format Family (.rdata,.rda)”. Loc.gov. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

  6. Hornik, Kurt; The R Core Team (12 April 2022). “R FAQ”. The Comprehensive R Archive Network. 3.3 What are the differences between R and S?. Archived from the original on 28 December 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2022.

  7. “Introduction”. The Julia Manual. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018.

  8. “Comparison with R”. pandas Getting started. Retrieved 15 July 2024.