R for statistical computations and a good R tutorial ..

The logo of the R-project ..

R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis.- Wikipedia

Released in August 1993 by Ross Ithaca and Robert Gentleman, R is a Free and Open Source software and is one of the most widely used Statistical Analysis software used by Data Scientists and Analysts from around the world.

Recently I have started being serious about R. Earlier I used to work on Octave and Matlab. Additionally knowing something about R would be an added advantage.  Click here for the original website of R, the R-project. 

I was browsing the net for a good R tutorial. I found one here.. (click here..) Good one ..

Learning R - Richard Cotton, O'Reilly Publishers, US. 499 pages..

R is basically text based. R Studio is Gui based environment. 

RStudio is a free and open-source integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics. RStudio was founded by JJ Allaire, creator of the programming language ColdFusion. Hadley Wickham is the Chief Scientist at RStudio.- Wikipedia

 The scientific and statistical community are slowly coming to knew first hand the power of Free and Open Source software..

George