R expert hopes to settle the debate with an analysis of the programming languages that's "fair and helpful".

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE's programming language of the year.

Programming languages: Julia touts its speed edge over Python and R Benchmarks suggest programming language Julia may be the best choice for big-data analysis using CSV format files.

Programming has become essential for looking at large datasets, and the R language is particularly useful for statistical analysis. With the R Programming Language Compiler app, you can now test ...

Compare the Python programming language and R to see how they differ and which is better for data science.

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of services for the open source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics.