The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R. There's no clear definition of the term ...

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, ...

The functions .C and .Call. provide a standard interface to compiled code that has been linked into R. These functions are explored in the following presentation.

Bai, X.M., He, L.Y. and Cheng, X.L. (2025) Cerebellum and Language: Regulation and Application. Journal of Biosciences and ...

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that allows arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. R is an open-source programming ...

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