Skip to content

Apple Swift vs R (programming language)

A side-by-side look at Apple Swift and R (programming language). For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Apple Swift

Apple Swift

Development

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. Swift makes iOS and OS X development faster and easier through features like type safety, type inference and fast compilation.

iosmacosappleobjectivec
R (programming language)

R (programming language)

Development

R is a free, open-source programming language and software environment for statistical analysis, data visualization, and scientific computing. It is widely used by statisticians, data miners, data analysts, and data scientists for developing statistical software and data analysis.

statisticsdata-analysisdata-visualizationscientific-computingopen-source