R (programming language)

Quality:

R - programming language for statistical analysis. This programming language is the 13^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 10^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "R (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 200 references and 20 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7250^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 10^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8626^th most popular in all topics.

The 13^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6474^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 8593^rd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5465^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "R (programming language)" was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8593^rd place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "R (programming language)", its content was written by 760 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2463 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

R is on the 10^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 13^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1525 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6343 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3223 in August 2018
• Global: #3258 in December 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2623 in April 2015
• Global: #4529 in April 2015

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) R (programming language)		100
2	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		85.7143
3	Esperanto (eo) R (programara lingvo)		77.3204
4	Croatian (hr) R (programski jezik)		63.1103
5	Chinese (zh) R语言		62.9846
6	Simple English (simple) R (programming language)		60.5593
7	French (fr) R (langage)		55.1692
8	Galician (gl) R (linguaxe de programación)		53.3676
9	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		49.0346
10	Hebrew (he) R (שפת תכנות)		47.9068

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) R (programming language)		16 675 363
2	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		2 052 261
3	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		1 902 584
4	Japanese (ja) R言語		1 565 965
5	French (fr) R (langage)		1 470 374
6	Russian (ru) R (язык программирования)		1 188 487
7	Chinese (zh) R语言		999 943
8	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		973 350
9	Italian (it) R (software)		552 516
10	Polish (pl) R (język programowania)		473 670

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) R (programming language)		88 677
2	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		20 020
3	French (fr) R (langage)		11 169
4	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		8 229
5	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		7 546
6	Indonesian (id) R (bahasa pemrograman)		5 807
7	Russian (ru) R (язык программирования)		4 661
8	Italian (it) R (software)		4 288
9	Japanese (ja) R言語		2 903
10	Chinese (zh) R语言		2 806

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) R (programming language)		760
2	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		262
3	French (fr) R (langage)		185
4	Italian (it) R (software)		107
5	Russian (ru) R (язык программирования)		86
6	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		84
7	Japanese (ja) R言語		82
8	Chinese (zh) R语言		69
9	Polish (pl) R (język programowania)		67
10	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		62

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) R (programming language)		10
2	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		2
3	French (fr) R (langage)		2
4	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		1
5	Galician (gl) R (linguaxe de programación)		1
6	Japanese (ja) R言語		1
7	Russian (ru) R (язык программирования)		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) R (мова програмування)		1
9	Arabic (ar) آر (لغة برمجة)		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) R (proqramlaşdırma dili)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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