R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Joan Bono on 23 Apr 13Interesante artículo a tener en cuenta
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“R is really important to the point that it’s hard to overvalue
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It allows statisticians to do very intricate and complicated analyses without knowing the blood and guts of computing systems.”
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It is also free.
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R is similar to other programming languages, like C, Java and Perl,
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R is particularly useful because it contains a number of built-in mechanisms for organizing data, running calculations on the information and creating graphical representations of data sets
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What makes R so useful
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is that statisticians, engineers and scientists can improve the software’s code or write variations for specific tasks
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“The great beauty of R is that you can modify it to do all sorts of things
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“And you have a lot of prepackaged stuff that’s already available,
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R first appeared in 1996,
