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by Kurtz79 4490 days ago
Also, naming a programming language with a single letter is not very search-friendly.
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As someone learning and using R I agree 100%
With q.js I could feel the same as well.
Did you find Rseek? http://www.rseek.org/
Non-rhetorical question: Why do people continue to do this? The number of unique names still available for a programming language is basically infinite, yet we get stuck with Go and R and C#.

Google is pretty smart about categorizing searches for languages like Ruby and Java (both common words), but with R especially it's often quite difficult to get relevant results.

R predates Google, and derives its name from S