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The generative AI technology powering ChatGPT—OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 LLMs—is available to R users, with a growing collection of packages and apps to choose from. ChatGPT can answer questions about ...

C remains the top programming language, according to the August index from software QA automation company TIOBE. But the spotlight for up-and-coming language remains focused on R, which continues to ...

You know you've been dying to perform complicated statistical analyses. The R programming language might just be your ticket to success. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

R Markdown isn’t going away. But the Quarto publishing platform is as friendly to Python, Julia, and Observable JavaScript as it is to R. R Markdown has been one of the more compelling aspects of the ...

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that allows arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. R is an open-source programming ...

TIOBE Index for January 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent January’s TIOBE Index begins the year with familiar names still setting the pace, but the underlying ...