Why The R Programming Language Is Good For Business Thanks to one company, the same code that is revolutionizing the scientific community is now moving up the ranks of the business world.

The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the ...

For example, the first formal programming course I took (well, other than BASIC back in fourth grade) was Harvard's CS50, which you can take for free.

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