R is a language for data manipulation and statistical computing available as free software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU general public license. It has a wide range of statistical modeling and graphical techniques, but it is also highly extensible through the use of thousands of community-developed packages published through Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). It is one of the most popular tools for statistical modeling and analysis and is used, for example, in data cleaning, data exploration and visualization, statistical analysis, and the predictive modeling of complex systems. Go to http://www.r-project.org for more information.
R has always been a supported feature of Spotfire, but up to the release of Version 5.0 of the platform, you had to install a TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services server, configure it with an R engine, write your R programs in that environment, and create and register data functions to provide input...