The award-winning S programming language is at the core of both TIBCO Spotfire S+ and R. The only language created specifically for exploratory data analysis and statistical modeling, the S programming language allows you to create statistical applications up to five times faster than with other languages.
Object-oriented, interpreted 4GL language.
Interactive exploration and fast prototyping.
Rich data structures: vector, matrix, array, data frame, list and many more.
User-defined functions, objects, classes, methods and libraries.
Library of over 4000 functions for data manipulation, graphics, statistical modeling, and integration.
CSAN library of available packages.