Sport Informatics and Analytics/Pattern Recognition/Using R/Introduction

Introduction
This topic develops issues raised in Theme 2 of this course Pattern Recognition.

R is a programming language and a software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.

Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch introduce R in the first edition of the R Newsletter. The R Core Team provide a brief background report about R in the newsletter

You can find a detailed description of R on this Wikipedia page.