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Statistical Programming With R

Posted by timothy on from the no-r-in-statistics dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This series introduces you to R, a rich statistical environment, released as free software. It includes a programming language, an interactive shell, and extensive graphing capability. What's more, R comes with a spectacular collection of functions for mathematical and statistical manipulations -- with still more capabilities available in optional packages."

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  1. what R isn't by bahamutirc · · Score: 5, Informative

    For people who have never taken real stat classes in college (or never learned it on their own) R will seem like a useless language. Most other languages can handle basic statistics computations.

    Statistics is a whole lot more than means and averages. When I took my first real stat class, everything I knew about statistics was literally covered on the first half of the first page. I was totally blown away by what you could do with statistics.

    R is for hardcore stat folk who know a bit about programming, not programmers who need to do a little basic computation.