R
Statistical computing language and environment — the standard for data analysis, visualisation, and bioinformatics.
dynamic
interpreted
since 1993
functionalstatisticalimperative
R was built by statisticians for statistics and remains the dominant language in academia, biostatistics, and quantitative research. The tidyverse ecosystem (ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr) provides a coherent, expressive grammar for data manipulation and visualisation. R Shiny enables interactive web-based dashboards from pure R code.