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R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, etc.) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. It is a cross-platform, open-source language and environment that was developed in mid-1993 by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Its main focus is on data manipulation and analysis, and it is widely used in scientific and academic research. The language is designed to be both user-friendly and easy to learn for beginners, while also providing more advanced users with a powerful set of tools for data analysis. Functions and packages can be easily installed from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). The language is also extensible, which means that new functions and packages can be created and added to the language.

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