The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the R Consortium, intended to strengthen the technical and user communities around the R language,  a specialized programming language for statistical data analysis.

Representatives from the R Foundation and industry representatives are behind the new consortium. Microsoft and RStudio have joined the consortium as platinum members. TIBCO Software is a gold member and silver members include Alteryx, Google, HP, Mango Solutions, Ketchum Trading and Oracle.

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