Why is R called R?

R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently developed by the R Development Core Team, of which Chambers is a member. R is named partly after the first names of the first two R authors and partly as a play on the name of S . R is a GNU project.

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What is R IDE?

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R . It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.

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What is R project used for?

Introduction to R R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics . It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues.

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How do I start R programming?

Click on the “Start” button at the bottom left of your computer screen, and then choose “All programs”, and start R by selecting “R” (or R X.X.X, where X.X.X gives the version of R, eg. R 2.10. 0) from the menu of programs. The R console (a rectangle) should pop up.

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How do you code in R?

The RStudio interface is simple. You type R code into the bottom line of the RStudio console pane and then click Enter to run it . The code you type is called a command, because it will command your computer to do something for you. The line you type it into is called the command line.

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