R (programming language)

Quality:

R - programming language for statistical analysis. This programming language is the 14^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 11^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “R (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 78 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 60 references and 20 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7320^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 11^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8524^th most popular in all topics.

The 14^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “R (programming language)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “R (programming language)”, its content was written by 783 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2503 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

R is on the 11^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 14^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1519 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6525 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3225 in August 2018
• Global: #3266 in December 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2647 in April 2015
• Global: #4545 in December 2017

There are 47 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, 2026 (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	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		85.3333
2	English (en) R (programming language)		78.0321
3	Esperanto (eo) R (programara lingvo)		77.0954
4	Croatian (hr) R (programski jezik)		63.1595
5	Chinese (zh) R语言		62.8866
6	Simple English (simple) R (programming language)		57.4894
7	French (fr) R (langage)		54.2307
8	Galician (gl) R (linguaxe de programación)		53.4802
9	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		47.5182
10	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		47.0419

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) R (programming language)		17 464 945
2	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		2 227 908
3	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		1 979 190
4	French (fr) R (langage)		1 596 376
5	Japanese (ja) R言語		1 595 791
6	Russian (ru) R (язык программирования)		1 267 326
7	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		1 077 634
8	Chinese (zh) R语言		1 028 293
9	Italian (it) R (software)		587 039
10	Polish (pl) R (język programowania)		487 328

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)		44 977
2	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		13 296
3	French (fr) R (langage)		10 435
4	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		7 649
5	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		4 684
6	Russian (ru) R (язык программирования)		2 425
7	Japanese (ja) R言語		2 006
8	Vietnamese (vi) R (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		1 818
9	Chinese (zh) R语言		1 598
10	Italian (it) R (software)		1 439

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)		783
2	German (de) R (Programmiersprache)		264
3	French (fr) R (langage)		190
4	Italian (it) R (software)		107
5	Spanish (es) R (lenguaje de programación)		89
6	Russian (ru) R (язык программирования)		88
7	Japanese (ja) R言語		86
8	Chinese (zh) R语言		70
9	Polish (pl) R (język programowania)		67
10	Portuguese (pt) R (linguagem de programação)		65

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)		2
2	Japanese (ja) R言語		2
3	Vietnamese (vi) R (ngôn ngữ lập trình)		2
4	Danish (da) R (statistikprogram)		1
5	Persian (fa) آر (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) R (мова програмування)		1
7	Arabic (ar) آر (لغة برمجة)		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) R (proqramlaşdırma dili)		0
9	Belarusian (be) R (мова праграмавання)		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) R (език за програмиране)		0

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

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