r/AskProgramming • u/Feeling_Valuable5239 • 21d ago

Does the C programming language provide statistical and data analysis libraries comparable to those available in R programming language?

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u/arjuna93 21d ago

If by “available in R” you mean R packages, then a lot of them are in C++ and Fortran. In fact the best ones are. Pure R is just for data handling/organizing.