"R [http://www.r-project.org] is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics" [http://www.r-project.org/about.html]. For more background on R, see the February 2003 ... R apparently binds to [Tcl], [Tk], and [Visual Tcl] in ways that have yet to be clearly described [http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-announce/1999/0023.html]. Seductive screen-shots appear at http://www.bioconductor.org/Screenshots/index.html , for example. What: R Where: http://www.r-project.org/ http://cran.r-project.org/ http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/ http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/%7Ehornik/R/R-FAQ.html http://stat.auckland.ac.nz/rproj.html Description: Statistical computing and visualization language, similar to the S language. Provides a wide variety of techniques. Comes with a tcltk package providing interface and language bindings for Tcl/Tk. Makes use of plplot. Note that Mark Myatt mailto:mark@myatt.demon.co.uk is writing a syntax highlighting editor to be used as a front-end of R; contact him for details. Currently at version 1.5.0 . Updated: 10/2001 Contact: See web site ---- [[ [Category Language] | [Category Mathematiocs] | ]]