Last week, Microsoft quietly made available to its MSDN and DreamSpark subscribers its R Server family of products. On January 12, Microsoft announced officially the availability and rebranding of the ...

Statisticians and data miners have been using R software and language for analytics within research and academia environments for some time. This open source community has contributed thousands of ...

Last week Microsoft released R Server (MRS) 9.0. Ironically, I was so busy working with R Server for a conference workshop I was presenting at the end of the week, that I needed to wait until this ...

Microsoft has struck a deal to acquire Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services for R, the open-source programming language for developing statistical analysis and ...

Microsoft hasn't been standing still since it became the new commercial steward of the R programming language by acquiring R specialist Revolution Analytics a year ago. The company has been busy ...

In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language. R is one of ...

R is an open source programming language especially designed for manipulating data and performing statistical analysis. It is very similar to SAS Enterprise Guide except: R is a programming language.