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R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
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It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment
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which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent
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Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a
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different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but
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much code written for S runs unaltered under R.
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R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear
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modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,
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classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly
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extensible.
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