Part2 What is R ?

• Programming language and environment for data manipulation, statistical computing, and graphical display.

• Implementation of the S programming language

• Created at the University of Auckland, New Zealand:
  • Initial version released in 1995
  • Stable version released in 2000
• Free and open source !
  • https://www.r-project.org/

• Interactive, flexible

• Very active community of developers and users!
  • Many resources and forums available

• Access through a command-line interpreter: