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StatSoft (Tulsa, Oklahoma) and REvolution Computing (New Haven, CT) December 8, 2008

As part of its ongoing plans and efforts to enable the use of the R language within STATISTICA, StatSoft has certified REvolution R as compatible with the STATISTICA software platform.

R is a language for statistical computing and graphics. It is open-source software used in practically every graduate-level statistics course. STATISTICA leverages R to assist customers who need access to the existing vast selection of specialized statistical procedures written in R. REvolution Computing offers open-source products and solutions for analytics including REvolution R, which is an optimized, validated, and supported distribution of R.

Further details

R support in STATISTICA was designed to create an integrated STATISTICA-R platform that will enable users to run R programs ("scripts") directly inside the STATISTICA or WebSTATISTICA platforms so that STATISTICA users can take full advantage of the specialized capabilities available in R. The environment for running R scripts inside STATISTICA was specifically designed to:
 

• Allow users to run R scripts "as is," and retrieve the results into STATISTICA reports (graphs are included in the reports as metafiles embedded into STATISTICA graphs, thus enabling enhancements and annotations to the graphs, printing of graphs, exporting of graphs, etc.)
• Provide additional keywords for R scripts run inside STATISTICA, so that users can "send" data from STATISTICA spreadsheets to R data frames for the analyses
• Provide additional keywords to extract R results tables directly into STATISTICA RouteOutput, so that the respective results tables can be automatically placed into STATISTICA Workbooks as STATISTICA data tables for further processing
• Provide additional keywords to enable users to pass to the R scripts enhanced dictionaries ("collections") so that lists of parameters, spreadsheets, or other objects can be set via a UI created in STATISTICA Visual Basic (SVB or WebSTATISTICA), which can then pass the respective parameters to R scripts run from inside the SVB environment.

About STATISTICA

The STATISTICA Suite of Data Analysis Applications provides the most comprehensive collection of advanced analytical and data visualization tools (with more than 15,000 externally callable functions). The software is fully Web enabled, offers a selection of user interfaces and quick integration with virtually all database platforms, and is built upon an open, easily expandable architecture. STATISTICA has received the highest rating in EVERY independent comparative review in which it has been featured since its first release in 1993.

About StatSoft, Inc.

StatSoft, Inc. (www.statsoft.com), founded in 1984, is one of the largest producers of enterprise and desktop software for Data Analysis, Data Mining, Quality Control/Six Sigma, and Web-based Analytics. Its products are used worldwide at most major universities, corporations, and government agencies and are supported with training and consulting services by a worldwide network of StatSoft offices in 24 countries on all continents.

About REvolution Computing

New Haven, Connecticut-based REvolution Computing is the leading commercial provider of software and support for the statistical computing language known as “R.” Our products enable statisticians, scientists and others to derive meaning from large sets of mission-critical data in record time, and to create predictive models that help to answer their most difficult questions. REvolution Computing works closely with the R community to incorporate the latest developments in open source R, and with our clients to support their efforts to produce groundbreaking innovations in life sciences, financial services, defense technology and other industries where high-level analytics are crucial to success. At REvolution Computing, “We do the math.”