Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

In January I wrote about using Macdown to write in Markdown, a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document—headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.—using ...

Vectors, lists, arrays, matrices and data frames -- a look at five of the most fundamental data structures built into R. Among my colleagues, R is one of the fastest-growing programming languages.

R is an open source programming language especially designed for manipulating data and performing statistical analysis. It is very similar to SAS Enterprise Guide except: R is a programming language.

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

We're at the beginning of a new wave of numeric data -- and the new R language provides a powerful array of tools to make sense of it all We tend to think of programming languages as general purpose, ...