E.N. Materov, Ph.D. of Physico-mathematical Sciences
FSBEE HE Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia
The article provides an overview of the R programming language, its capabilities for processing and visualization of tabular data on examples related to fire safety issues. Besides, the basic principles of graphics by means of R are shown, as well as examples of exploratory data analysis, general recommendations on promising methods of computer information processing in the R environment, and advantages in comparison with other means of data processing.