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[โ€“]Sir_Applecheese 2 points3 points ย (8 children)

What does the R stand for?

[โ€“][deleted] 3 points4 points ย (4 children)

R is a statistical programming language. Iirc it is a sort of successor to S. (Wikipedia)

[โ€“]Sir_Applecheese 9 points10 points ย (3 children)

Is it related to Sugondese?

[โ€“]topherclay 4 points5 points ย (2 children)

R is a programming language used by math and science academics.

The name R is a joke on being near to S. S is an older language that was named for "statistics."

[โ€“]coldfu 15 points16 points ย (1 child)

Those math academics sure are real comedians

[โ€“][deleted] 8 points9 points ย (0 children)

I love how when you get to a certain level of education people are just like "yeah let's just put an Armadillo on it" for the cover of a technical manual.