Section 1 PART 3

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