# R (Programming)

Skill · Data Science, Analytics and AI/ML

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/r-programming

R is a programming language and free software environment primarily used for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. Created in the early 1990s by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, it is widely used by statisticians, data scientists, and academic researchers, and is supported by a large ecosystem of packages available through CRAN.

Related skills: [Python](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/python), [RStudio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/rstudio), [Statistical Analysis](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/statistical-analysis), [Ggplot2](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/ggplot2)

## Open roles requiring R (Programming) (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.