Features of R Programming Language

These are the R programming language features

 

• • R is a programming language for data analysis and graphics.
  • It is an open source language, which means that it is continually being reviewed and improved.
  • It has powerful tools for performing any statistical data analysis.
  • By using this, we can perform multiple calculations on vectors, arrays and matrices.
  • It supports both procedural and object oriented features. The procedural programming provides records, modules and procedural calls, while the object oriented programming provides classes, objects and generic functions.

• • It provides database input, data handling, storage facilities.
  • We can easily do matrix arithmetic using this.
  • As it is an interpreted language so there is no need to compile your code before execution.
  • The biggest strength of R is that it provides predefined functions to create more sophisticated plots to represent complex data, such as contour lines, density curves, and many other things.
  • In addition to providing statistical operations, it is also a general-purpose programming language. It is platform independent and available for the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.
  • It has the capability to plot different types of graphs like scatter plots, line plots, dot plots, histograms, box plots and so on.
  • With the help of some inbuilt and external packages, it can easily handle different types of file manipulations.

• The system saves data sets between sessions, so you don’t need to reload
  them each time. It saves your command history too.
• R is a command line driven program, means the commands entered in the console are evaluated and executed. There is no need to compile the code.
• There are some free GUIs available for R, so rather than using an R terminal window, we can also use GUI.
• We can run the R program in both interactive and batch modes.