R은 통계 계산 및 그래픽을 위한 무료 소프트웨어 환경이며, S 언어의 방언입니다. 프로그래밍 언어. It was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. R is considered an alternative implementation of S, with semantics derived from Scheme, which introduced powerful features like lexical scoping not present in early S. The design of R draws on Scheme, an example of how programming languages research influences practical tools for statistics.

















