Company Overview
The R Foundation is a not for profit organization working in the public interest. It has been founded by the members of the R Development Core Team in order to Provide support for the R project and other innovations in statistical computing.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.