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R Data Analysis Software
R is an open source statistical programming language and environment created in 1993 that is popular for statistical analysis and graphics. It was developed as an implementation of S and is cited as the most powerful statistical computing language. R is widely used at companies like Google and allows interfacing with other programs through servers to enable analysis, graphing, and other statistical tasks. R can be used through its basic environment, commercial products like RStudio, or plugins for other IDEs.
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