About R Programming Language
R is a programming language for graphics and statistical computing supported by R Foundation and R Core Team for Statistical Computing. It was created by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka. R is used by statisticians, bioinformaticians and data miners for conducting data analysis and creating statistical software.
It was founded on 1993. R is said to be the most used programming language used for data mining. This ranked 8th in August 2020 at the TIOBE Index; a measure of the most famous programming languages. R is an open-source implementation of S Programming Language.
Meaning and History of R Programming Language Logo
R is a free software framework within GNU Package which is available under GNU General Public License. This programming language is written in Fortran, C and R itself; making it self-hosting. R programming language has a command line interface. The platform never changed its logo.
Evolution of R Programming Language Logo
R Programming language got its name from its creators, as they had R letters in each of their names. They started this project when they were studying at the University of Auckland. The first official release was in June 1995 and the first ever stable beta version was called V1.0 and it was released on 29th February 2000. The logo consists of a customized circle and the circle has the head of R and the lower part of R is outside the circle.
Building of R Programming Language Logo
The formation of R Core Team was done in 1997. This was done to make developments and advancements in the R Programming Language. There were 27 people appointed for R Core Team which had statisticians and computer scientists. In April 2003, the company became Non-Profit Organization. The logo has the following two components.
Font
The R is written in simple bold Calibri Body.
Color
The circle is in grey color and the R is in blue color.
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Conclusion
You can be the judge of this logo and we reckon that we are on the same page that this may be the most boring logo of all time. The company did not even try to come up with any creativity. It seems like someone just played with MS-Paints.