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R Programming Language
R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, and data analysis.The core R language is augmented by a large number of extension packages, containing reusable code, documentation, and sample data.
R software is open-source and free software. It is licensed by the GNU Project and available under the GNU General Public License.
It is written primarily in C, Fortran, and R itself. Precompiled executables are provided for various operating systems.
As an interpreted language, R has a native command line interface. Moreover, multiple third-party graphical user interfaces are available, such as RStudio-an integrated development environment-and Jupyter-a notebook interface.
Why Use R ?
- It is a great resource for data analysis, data visualization, data science and machine learning
- It provides many statistical techniques (such as statistical tests, classification, clustering and data reduction)
- It is easy to draw graphs in R, like pie charts, histograms, box plot, scatter plot, etc++
- It works on different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- It is open-source and free
- It has a large community support
- It has many packages (libraries of functions) that can be used to solve different problems