# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| 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: