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A language for statistical computing

The lingua franca of statistics: 19,000+ packages for analysis, visualization and data science.

Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman's statistical language from Auckland, beloved in academia and biostatistics. Tidyverse packages (ggplot2, dplyr) made data manipulation and visualization a joy, and RMarkdown/Quarto publish analysis reproducibly. If your work is statistics-first rather than engineering-first, R remains excellent.

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Statisticians and analysts who want purpose-built statistical computing and visualisation.

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