A language that's data-intensive naturally should have a way to dig into the data effectively. Here's a look at some of the R functions for searching and sorting through it all.

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.

Technical Notes on the R programming language, by Sigal Blay. 1) Calling C from R, an introduction. The functions .C and .Call. provide a standard interface to compiled code that has been linked into ...