Statistical programming language R has fallen off Tiobe index's list of the 20 most popular languages, having spent three years in the top tier.

Thanks to one company, the same code that is revolutionizing the scientific community is now moving up the ranks of the business world.

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

This paper reviews some programming techniques in R that have proved useful, particularly for substantial projects. These include several versions of object-oriented programming, used in a large ...

There's no clear agreement about what's behind statistical programming language R's recent apparent rise.

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE's programming language of the year.

Java has a lot going for it, but it's not the top language for data science. Java professionals may want to familiarize themselves with Python or R for data science workflows.

Compare the Python programming language and R to see how they differ and which is better for data science.