Section 1 Introduction

1.1 Advantage R

  • Free and open-source
  • Statistical program
  • Mathematical program
  • CRAN Task Views - Chemometrics, Econometrics, Genetics
  • R/Bioconductor: Bioinformatics, Omics data analysis
  • Programming tool
  • Publication quality graphical options
  • Database management
  • Reproducible research:
    • Document
    • Presentation
    • Report
    • Web pages
  • User-friendly interface
  • Strong package ecosystem
  • Worldwide useR




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