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R is hot. Whether measured by more than 10,000 add-on packages, the 95,000+ members of LinkedIn’s R group or the more than 400 R Meetup groups currently in existence, there can be little doubt that ...

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that allows arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. R is an open-source programming ...

Open-source research, which started as a counterculture movement in the software industry 15 years ago, has since grown into a business model whose best-known product, Linux, has become a credible ...

Sure, you could use one of the commercial or open-source RSS readers. But isn’t it more fun to code your own? RSS feeds have been around since the late ’90s, and they remain a handy way to keep up ...

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...

A high-severity vulnerability in an R programming language process could expose organizations using the popular open source language to attacks via the software supply chain. The vulnerability, ...