Statistical programming language R has climbed back up to 8th place in Tiobe's latest programming language popularity index, just behind JavaScript and up from 20th position last July.

The R programming language is an important tool for development in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With machines becoming more important as data generators, the popularity of the ...

Tiobe in July put forward a theory that statistical programming language R rose in popularity as a result of the universities and the healthcare industry racing to find a vaccine for COVID-19.

The R programming language is quickly gaining ... Muenchen gauged the popularity of statistical software packages by tracking how often they have been used for published scientific research ...

The R statistical programming language is gaining popularity as developers scramble to meet the Big Data skills shortage, with one new report proclaiming it's "on its way to the top 10." "Thanks to ...

TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen, which has an annual ranking of top programming languages, said there are two reasons why R has gained in popularity. The first is that universities and research institutes ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

When it comes to programming language trends, 2014 has shown that big data and Web programming are hot and anything Apple touches will gain traction. This month’s Tiobe Index of language search ...

As programming languages go, there’s no denying that Python is hot. Originally created as a general-purpose scripting language, Python somehow became the most popular language for data science. But is ...