R is a free software 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 consider.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD



R (programming language) vs Stata Comments
Learning R is rather steep; Stata is not a programming language, but more like a command interface.

- R (programming language) is Free and Open Source
- R (programming language) is Customizable and Lightweight











































because its free and does the same job as stata