In zsh (the default shell in MacOS), R launches the R programming language console.

r, in contrast, does ... what?

% which r
r: shell built-in command
% man r
No manual entry for r

I can't figure out how to do a web search for this one without getting results for R instead of r.

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Per [`man zshbuiltins`](linux.die.net/man/1/zshbuiltin), the builtin shell command `r` is equivalent to `fc -e -`, which, to my reading of the same manpage, selects the most recent command and executes it without editing.

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