R is a programming language that was created for statistical computation and is extremely popular for data analysis among Data Miners and Statisticians. R language has a Command Line Interface, but there are several other softwares that support Graphical User Interface such as Rstudio and Jupyter Notebooks. R includes methods like linear regression, time series, statistical interference, and even machine learning algorithms.
When working with R, users often want to check the version of R stored on their system to ensure that they do not use an outdated version. Here area couple of ways to check the version:
To check using the R console or RStudio, write version
or R.version()
:
version
If you are using RStudio, you can go to Tools -> Global Options to check your R version:
You can write R --version
in the Linux terminal:
# press run button. # terminal will appear. # enter R --version command