

The R Foundation Statutes can be downloaded as PDF file in English or German. We hope to attract sufficient funding to make these goals realities. R is an official part of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU project, and the R Foundation has similar goals to other open source software foundations like the Apache Foundation or the GNOME Foundation.Īmong the goals of the R Foundation are the support of continued development of R, the exploration of new methodology, teaching and training of statistical computing and the organization of meetings and conferences with a statistical computing orientation. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN mirror. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Hold and administer the copyright of R software and documentation. The R Project for Statistical Computing Getting Started.1.3 R and statistics Our introduction to the R environment did not mention statistics, yet many people use R as a statistics system. See Section What documentation exists for R in The R statistical system FAQ. Provide a reference point for individuals, instititutions or commercial enterprises that want to support or interact with the R development community. and documentation for S/S-Plus can typically be used with R, keeping the differences between the S implementations in mind.We believe that R has become a mature and valuable tool and we would like to ensure its continued development and the development of future innovations in software for statistical and computational research. Provide support for the R project and other innovations in statistical computing.It has been founded by the members of the R Development Core Team in order to

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