''The R Journal'' is a

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published by The R Foundation since 2009. It publishes research articles in statistical computing that are of interest to users of the

R programming language R is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Created by statisticians Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, R is used among data miners, bioinforma ...

. The journal includes a ''News and Notes'' section that supersedes the ''R News'' newsletter, which was published from 2001 to 2008. The journal serves a dual role as a research journal in statistical computing and as the official newsletter of the R Project. It publishes regular news updates about The R Foundation, the CRAN repository system, and the

Bioconductor Bioconductor is a free, open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data generated by wet lab experiments in molecular biology. Bioconductor is based primarily on the statistical R programming ...

project. It also published articles fore-shadowing new development directions for R. The journal also publishes articles on best-practice and innovation in modelling, for example in multivariate statistics or multi-level modelling. A feature of the journal is the inclusion in articles of complete code by which readers can reproduce results and examples.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 1.673.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been

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: Vince Carey (2009), Peter Dalgaard (2010), Heather Turner (2011), Martyn Plummer (2012),

Hadley Wickham Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a statistician from New Zealand and Chief Scientist at Posit, PBC (former RStudio Inc.) and an adjunct Professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice Uni ...

(2013), Deepayan Sarkar (2014), Bettina Grün (2015), Michael Lawrence (2016), Roger Bivand (2017), John Verzani (2018), Norman Matloff (2019), Michael Kane (2020), Dianne Cook (2021), and Catherine Hurley (2022).

References

External links

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