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R SOFTWARE

• R is an open-source programming language that is widely used as a statistical


software and data analysis tool.

• R generally comes with the Command-line interface.

• R is available across widely used platforms like Windows, Linux, and macOS.

• Also, the R programming language offers the latest cutting-edge tool.

• It was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of


Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently being developed by the R
Development Core Team.

• R is widely used by data miners, bioinformaticians, and statisticians for data


analysis and statistical software development.
Why use the R programming language?
Features of R
•Basic Statistics: The most common basic statistics terms are the mean, mode,
and median. These are all known as “Measures of Central Tendency.” So using the
R language we can measure central tendency very easily.
•Static graphics: R is rich with facilities for creating and developing interesting
static graphics. R contains functionality for many plot types including graphic
maps, mosaic plots, biplots, and the list goes on.
•Probability distributions: Probability distributions play a vital role in statistics
and by using R we can easily handle various types of probability distributions
such as Binomial Distribution, Normal Distribution, Chi-squared Distribution, and
many more.
•Data analysis: It provides a large, coherent, and integrated collection of tools for
data analysis.
•R Packages: One of the major features of R is it has a wide availability of
libraries. R has CRAN(Comprehensive R Archive Network), which is a repository
holding more than 10, 0000 packages.
Advantages of R
•R is the most comprehensive statistical analysis package. As new
technology and concepts often appear first in R.

•As R programming language is an open source. Thus, you can run R


anywhere and at any time.

•R programming language is suitable for GNU/Linux and Windows


operating systems.

•R programming is cross-platform and runs on any operating system.

•In R, everyone is welcome to provide new packages, bug fixes, and code
enhancements.
Disadvantages of R

•In the R programming language, the standard of some packages is less


than perfect.

•Although, R commands give little pressure on memory management. So


R programming language may consume all available memory.

•In R basically, nobody to complain if something doesn’t work.

•R programming language is much slower than other programming


languages such as Python and MATLAB.
Console

R script

File, plot, packages,


installation and help
pane
Data objects

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