# R

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/r/  
**Website:** https://www.r-project.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

R is a free, open-source programming language and statistical computing environment maintained by the R Core Team and supported by the R Foundation. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques and is highly extensible through its package ecosystem on CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network), Bioconductor, and GitHub. R is widely used among statisticians, data scientists, and researchers for data analysis, visualization, and reproducible research.

## Kin Score — 28.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.3 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **R Badges API** — Download count badge endpoints
- **R Downloads API** — Package download statistics
- **R Packages API** — CRAN package metadata
- **R Top Packages API** — Most-downloaded CRAN packages
- **R Versions API** — R release version information

## Agentic access (1)

- **R Agentic Access** — 14 operations

## Security (1)

- **R Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **R Plans Pricing**

## Tags

R, Statistics, Data Science, Open-Source, Programming Language

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/r/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.