- R - A programming language designed for statistical computing (top 15 of all programming languages) - debut 1993, "next generation S"
- The R foundation - The organization that governs R development - link
- RStudio, software - The premire IDE for R: public beta (2011), version 1.0 (2016), current version 1.4.
- RStudio, PBC - RStudio Public-benefit corporation - They govern development of RStudio - link
- RStudio Desktop - What most people install on their computer (including laptops)
- Rstudio Cloud - What most people use for a cloud based R environemnt
- IDE - Integraded Development Environment - RStudio is an IDE - link
- CRAN - Comprehensive R Archive Network - the central repository for R software - ie packages/libraries/etc.
- Packages aka Libraries - code written by others that is easy for you to use - aka they reason why R is popular
- Tidyverse - A collection of R packages - focuses on 'making data tidy' and 'using tidy data' (Pete has a mini rant on this if you are inclined to hear about it)
- RMarkdown - along with project jupyter one of the biggest bane's in Pete's teaching career
- knitr - an R package to integrate with things like LaTeX, HTML, Markdown, etc.