# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| R: R (language and environment for statistical computing) R: R: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and R: graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language R: and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories R: by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a R: different implementation of S. There are some important R: differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. R: R: R: