As of February of this year, R has been rated as the 13th most used programming language in the world. Before that, it was in the top 10, so we can conclude that R is used quite often around the ...

The top ten languages in TIOBE’s Programming Community index for August 2020. Image: TIOBE Speculation has centered on just why R has become more popular as of late.

Based on the Bell Labs S language, R does a lot more than handle statistics. While you’re likely to build libraries of R functions, you’re not likely to keep much code around.

The R statistical programming language is gaining popularity as developers scramble to meet the Big Data skills shortage, with one new report proclaiming it's "on its way to the top 10." "Thanks to ...

The R programming language leans more frequently to the cutting edge of data science, giving businesses the latest data analysis tools. The problem: With loose standards and scores of diverse ...

Coding Dojo annually scans Indeed to review the top programming languages based on job postings. The report spanned 524,149 global job postings that required knowledge of a specific language.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the ...