The R Language: An Engine for Bioinformatics and Data Science

• Published in: Life (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 12; no. 5; p. 648
• Main Authors: Giorgi, Federico M., Ceraolo, Carmine, Mercatelli, Daniele
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 27.04.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Bioinformatics; CRAN; Data analysis; Data science; Freeware; Learning algorithms; Machine learning; programming; Programming environments; Programming languages; Review; Software; Statistical analysis; statistics; Transcriptomes; R; CRAN; data science; programming; bioinformatics; statistics

The R programming language is approaching its 30th birthday, and in the last three decades it has achieved a prominent role in statistics, bioinformatics, and data science in general. It currently ranks among the top 10 most popular languages worldwide, and its community has produced tens of thousan...