R: R Statistical Programming Language R: R: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and R: graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language R: and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly R: AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R R: can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are R: some important differences, but much code written for S runs R: unaltered under R. R: R: Package built by Joel J. Adamson