{"id":481,"date":"2017-08-14T05:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T05:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inwizards.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2023-10-27T07:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T07:35:32","slug":"r-programming-language-gaining-ground-conventional-statistics-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/r-programming-language-gaining-ground-conventional-statistics-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"R programming language gaining ground on Conventional statistics packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the conventional data packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least based on one data statistician who instructs the language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It is extremely probable that throughout the summer of 2014, R became the most commonly used analytics software for scholarly articles, ending a spectacular 16-year run by SPSS,&#8221; wrote Robert Muenchen, in a blog post summarizing his analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muenchen gauged the popularity of statistical software packages by monitoring how often they&#8217;ve been employed for published scientific research and the number of references that they get in internet discussion forums, blogs, job listings and other sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1542270097115731\" data-ad-slot=\"5976953901\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scholarly citations are a &#8220;good leading indicator of where things are headed,&#8221; Muenchen wrote. Students who learn to use these software packages later go on to use them in their professional careers, either in academia or business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his most recent survey, Muenchen found that investigators continue to do most of their work on conventional software packages, namely SAS&#8217;s and MATLAB&#8217;s self-named bundle, as well as IBM&#8217;s SPSS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">R is an open-source functional programming language constructed for statistical computing and graphics .<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muenchen, a certified statistician who manages the research computing support at the University of Tennessee, might not be the most unbiased individual to announce a success for R&#8211;he also works as an R instructor on behalf of Revolution Analytics. But he has also been long recognized as an authority in computer analytics, leading code into SAS, SPSS and assorted R packages. He&#8217;s also served on the advisory boards of SAS and SPSS before it was acquired by IBM in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muenchen did not speculate in the blog article summarizing his findings concerning the reason why R is gaining popularity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/\">Inwizards<\/a> <\/strong>Software Technologies, s a leading software development company and most suitable company to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/hire-r-programmers.php\">hire R programmers.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the conventional data packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least based on one data statistician who instructs the language. &#8220;It is extremely probable that throughout the summer of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/R-Programming-India.jpg?fit=940%2C501&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inwizards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}