[PLUG] R - Environment for statistical computing and graphics

[Vivek Khurana]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gaurav Pant <gauravggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just came across this hope can be useful to others.
>
> http://www.r-project.org/
>
> R is a language and environment for statistical computing and
> graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and
> environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T,
> now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be
> considered as a different implementation of S. There are some
> important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered
> under R.

 And R supports parallel computing too for complex or big calculations
(via snow)

regards
Vivek

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