The R programming language, sometimes described as GNU S, is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It was originally created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is now developed by the R Development Core Team. R is considered by its developers to be an implementation of the S programming language, with semantics derived from Scheme. The name R comes partly from the first name of the two original authors, and partly as a word play on the name 'S'.The R FAQ: [LINK: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html] Why is R named R ?. Last accessed 31 July 2007. The S language has become a de-facto standard among statisticians for the development of statistical software. R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis. R's source code is freely available

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