Alternatives

R alternatives

R is the official R Project homepage: docs, downloads, and the language for statistics and data. It is a poor fit if you need contracts, SSO, or a named vendor SLA. Here are 6 tools on Toolora that do a similar job, 6 of them free or with a free tier, and what each one does differently.

R profileFree / open source
  1. 01

    Project Jupyter

    Open sourceToolora score94

    The official Project Jupyter homepage: notebooks, docs, and the classic lab for code and data

    Instead of R: Also covers data.

    Free / open source

  2. 02

    Julia

    Open sourceToolora score91

    The official Julia language homepage: docs, a high-performance language for science and data

    Instead of R: Also covers data.

    Free / open source

  3. 03

    Python.org

    FreeToolora score96

    Official downloads, docs, and the language homepage

    Instead of R: Same kind of tool, different trade-offs.

    Free

  4. 04

    Rust

    FreeToolora score94

    Official downloads, docs, and the systems language homepage

    Instead of R: Same kind of tool, different trade-offs.

    Free

  5. 05

    PHP

    Open sourceToolora score90

    The official PHP homepage: docs, downloads, and the language that still runs a lot of the web

    Instead of R: Same kind of tool, different trade-offs.

    Free / open source

  6. 06

    Ruby

    Open sourceToolora score92

    The official Ruby language homepage: docs, downloads, and a language built for getting things done

    Instead of R: Same kind of tool, different trade-offs.

    Free / open source

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