''The R Journal'' is a
peer-reviewed
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open-access scientific journal
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Content
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published by The R Foundation since 2009. It publishes research articles in statistical computing that are of interest to users of the
R programming language. The journal includes a ''News and Notes'' section that supersedes the ''R News'' newsletter, which was published from 2001 to 2008.
The journal serves a dual role as a research journal in statistical computing and as the official newsletter of the R Project. It publishes regular news updates about The R Foundation, the
CRAN repository system, and the
Bioconductor
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project. It also published articles fore-shadowing new development directions for R.
The journal also publishes articles on best-practice and innovation in modelling, for example in multivariate statistics or multi-level modelling. A feature of the journal is the inclusion in articles of complete code by which readers can reproduce results and examples.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in the
Science Citation Index Expanded
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.
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor of 1.673.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons are or have been
editors-in-chief: Vince Carey (2009),
Peter Dalgaard (2010), Heather Turner (2011), Martyn Plummer (2012),
Hadley Wickham (2013), Deepayan Sarkar (2014), Bettina Grün (2015), Michael Lawrence (2016),
Roger Bivand (2017), John Verzani (2018),
Norman Matloff (2019), Michael Kane (2020),
Dianne Cook (2021), and
Catherine Hurley (2022).
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