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 ...

You might not have ever heard of the programming language R but, if you’re doing data analysis, it might be just the language you need. And this particular book on R is one that is likely to teach you ...

A University of Iowa professor has spent 30 years working on the free, open-source computing tool, R. He is being recognized ...

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, worth one million US dollars, this year goes to the core team of the statistical programming language R. The open-source programming language R is one of the most ...

This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

Savvy marketers are making use of R programming. The value of R to business intelligence stems from evaluating advanced strategies based on data, discovering new insights and relationships that can be ...

Predictive analysis refers to the use of historical data and analyzing it using statistics to predict future events. It takes place in seven steps, and these are: defining the project, data collection ...

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...