Microsoft is giving developers and students a free crack at its new server software for the R programming language. In a post to the company’s Machine Learning blog, Microsoft Corporate Vice President ...

For those who might be wondering, the programming language was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. Furthermore, note that most of the R libraries are written using R, but for others, C ...

Open source R is key for big data analytics, and Microsoft has infused many of its tools with the language One of Microsoft’s more interesting recent acquisitions was Revolution Analytics, a company ...

We're at the beginning of a new wave of numeric data -- and the new R language provides a powerful array of tools to make sense of it all We tend to think of programming languages as general purpose, ...