R Glossary

Browse 9 r terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

9 R Terms

Bioconductor
An open-source project and package ecosystem for bioinformatics and computational biology, centered largely around the R language. In scientific open-source...
CRAN
The Comprehensive R Archive Network, a repository of over 20,000 packages for the R programming language. CRAN enforces strict submission policies including...
ggplot
A data visualization package for R based on Leland Wilkinson's Grammar of Graphics, allowing users to build complex, layered plots by composing aesthetic...
R Community
The network of users, statisticians, educators, researchers, and package authors around the R language and its ecosystem. In data culture, the R community is...
R CRAN
The Comprehensive R Archive Network, the main public distribution network for R packages and related materials. In data and statistics culture, CRAN is both a...
R Markdown
A document format that combines Markdown text with embedded R code chunks, enabling reproducible reports, presentations, and dashboards. When rendered...
R Package
The standard unit of distributable, reusable code in R, consisting of functions, datasets, documentation, and a DESCRIPTION file defining metadata and...
Shiny
An R package and web framework that lets data scientists build interactive web applications and dashboards directly from R code without needing HTML, CSS, or...
Tidyverse
A collection of R packages (dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, readr, etc.) designed for data science with a consistent grammar and tidy data philosophy. Created by Hadley...

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