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; ...

Statisticians and data miners have been using R software and language for analytics within research and academia environments for some time. This open source community has contributed thousands of ...

Overview: Small R projects help turn theory into clear and practical data understandingReal-world datasets make learning R ...

Microsoft hasn't been standing still since it became the new commercial steward of the R programming language by acquiring R specialist Revolution Analytics a year ago. The company has been busy ...

Microsoft this week took the next step following its acquisition of Revolution Analytics last year by unwrapping an advanced-analytics platform of its own based on the open source R programming ...

A growing recognition of the business benefits predictive analysisprovides is positioning newcomer Revolution Analytics into a key role to help adopters of theR programing language migrate from legacy ...

The R programming language is an important tool for development in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With machines becoming more important as data generators, the popularity of the ...

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Revolution Analytics, an open-source analytics company with a strong focus on the highly popular R programming language for statistical computing.

C remains the top programming language, according to the August index from software QA automation company TIOBE. But the spotlight for up-and-coming language remains focused on R, which continues to ...

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 ...