Alternatives and competitors
Sites like R Project
The 20 closest statistical programming language alternatives to R Project, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to R Project? The closest matches are Python, Perl and Go. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 13 ms
01 · Entity
About R Project
R Project r-project.org
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
Wikidata: programming language for statistical analysis
Summary by Claude
Official site of the R programming language, a free open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics, providing downloads via CRAN mirrors, documentation, news, and information about the R Foundation.
- Who it’s for
- Statisticians, data scientists, researchers
- Business model
- Donations and supporting memberships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to R Project’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to R Project
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to R Project, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close cos 0.911 - 02
The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org
The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
Very close cos 0.902 - 03
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Very close cos 0.901 - 04 Very close cos 0.897
- 05
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close cos 0.894 - 06
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.893 - 07
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.893 - 08
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Close cos 0.890 - 09
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Close cos 0.890 - 10
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.889 - 11
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Close cos 0.888 - 12
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Close cos 0.887 - 13
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique est le plus grand organisme public français de recherche scientifique. Il exerce son activité dans
Close cos 0.887 - 14
Worldometer - real time world statistics
Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Interesting statistics with world population clock, forest loss this year, carbon dioxide co2 emission, world hunger data, energy consumed, and a lot more
Close cos 0.886 - 15
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Close cos 0.885 - 16
Content Blocked
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content
Close cos 0.884 - 17
curl
command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax
Close cos 0.881 - 18
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Close cos 0.883 - 19 Close cos 0.879
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Canva
online graphic design platform
Close cos 0.882
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to r-project.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones R Project uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What R Project is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.r-project.org/js/bootstrap.min.js
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX rproject-org0c.mail.protection.outlook.com
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what R Project adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on r-project.org 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on r-project.org 7/20
- nginx · not on r-project.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on r-project.org 6/20
- jQuery 5/20
- OpenAI · not on r-project.org 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on r-project.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Fastly · not on r-project.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on r-project.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on r-project.org 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on r-project.org 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on r-project.org 4/20
- Mailgun · not on r-project.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on r-project.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on r-project.org 3/20