The Power of the R Programming Language

BartlebyScrivener writes "The New York Times has an article on the R programming language. The Times describes it as: 'a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is becoming their lingua franca partly because data mining has entered a golden age, whether being used to set ad prices, find new drugs more quickly or fine-tune financial models. Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it.'"

Comments

Re:Show me some example code

[XDirtypunkX]

And with code like that, the poster should stay the hell away from computer science too!

Re:The R language and its uses

[Anonymous Coward]

So, it's exactly like Python, except with an outdated 1970's syntax that was frankly pretty weird to start with

You mean like whitespace-based indentation, a la Fortran? Oh wait, that'd be Python's outdated 1970's syntax that was frankly pretty weird to start with. Never mind.