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The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is R's central software repository, supported by the R Foundation. [9] It contains an archive of the latest and previous versions of the R distribution, documentation, and contributed R packages. [10] It includes both source packages and pre-compiled binaries for Windows and macOS. [11]
RStudio IDE (or RStudio) is an integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics. It is available in two formats: RStudio Desktop is a regular desktop application while RStudio Server runs on a remote server and allows accessing RStudio using a web browser .
The RStudio CRAN mirror download logs [11] show that the package is downloaded on average about 2,000 per month from those servers , [12] with a total of over 100,000 downloads since the first release, [13] according to RDocumentation.org, this puts the package in the 15th percentile of most popular R packages .
R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization.It has been adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics and data analysis. [9]The core R language is augmented by a large number of extension packages, containing reusable code, documentation, and sample data.
Unlike analytics products offered by SAS Institute, R does not natively handle datasets larger than main memory.In 2010 Revolution Analytics introduced ScaleR, a package for Revolution R Enterprise designed to handle big data through a high-performance disk-based data store called XDF (not related to IBM's Extensible Data Format) and high performance computing across large clusters. [18]
There are a few reviews of free statistical software. There were two reviews in journals (but not peer reviewed), one by Zhu and Kuljaca [26] and another article by Grant that included mainly a brief review of R. [27] Zhu and Kuljaca outlined some useful characteristics of software, such as ease of use, having a number of statistical procedures and ability to develop new procedures.
Free software portal; Shiny is a web framework for developing web applications (apps), originally in R and since 2022 in python.It is free and open source. [2] It was announced by Joe Cheng, CTO of Posit, formerly RStudio, in 2012. [3]
R Commander (Rcmdr) is a GUI for the R programming language, licensed under the GNU General Public License, and developed and maintained by John Fox in the sociology department at McMaster University. [2]