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The “Comprehensive R Archive Network” (CRAN) is a collection of sites which carry identical material, consisting of the R distribution(s), the contributed extensions, documentation for R, and binaries
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he CRAN master site at TU Wien, Austria, can be found at the URL http://cran.R-project.org/ Daily mirrors are available at URLs including
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s very similar in appearance to S, the underlying implementation and semantics are derived from Scheme
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It is possible for the user to interface to procedures written in the C, C++, or FORTRAN languages for efficiency.
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Since mid-1997 there has been a core group (the “R Core Team”) who can modify the R source code archive. The group currently consists of Doug Bates, John Chambers, Peter Dalgaard, Robert Gentleman, Kurt Hornik, Stefano Iacus, Ross Ihaka, Friedrich Leisch, Thomas Lumley, Martin Maechler, Duncan Murdoch, Paul Murrell, Martyn Plummer, Brian Ripley, Duncan Temple Lang, Luke Tierney, and Simon Urbanek.
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Sources, binaries and documentation for R can be obtained via CRAN, the “Comprehensive R Archive Network” (see What is CRAN?)
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Printed copies of the R reference manual for some version(s) are available from Network Theory Ltd, at http://www.network-theory.co.uk/R/base/. For each set of manuals sold, the publisher donates USD 10 to the R Foundation (see What is the R Foundation?).
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The R distribution also comes with the following manuals. “An Introduction to R” (R-intro) includes information on data types, programming elements, statistical modeling and graphics. This document is based on the “Notes on S-Plus” by Bill Venables and David Smith. “Writing R Extensions” (R-exts) currently describes the process of creating R add-on packages, writing R documentation, R's system and foreign language interfaces, and the R API. “R Data Import/Export” (R-data) is a guide to importing and exporting data to and from R. “The R Language Definition” (R-lang), a first version of the “Kernighan & Ritchie of R”, explains evaluation, parsing, object oriented programming, computing on the language, and so forth. “R Installation and Administration” (R-admin).
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It is the opinion of the R Core Team that one can use R for commercial purposes (e.g., in business or in consulting). The GPL, like all Open Source licenses, permits all and any use of the package. It only restricts distribution of R or of other programs containing code from R. This is made clear in clause 6 (“No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor”) of the Open Source Definition:
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The name is partly based on the (first) names of the first two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka),
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