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R is a powerful, open-source programming language and environment designed for statistical computing, data analysis, and visualization, with a growing community contributing over 7,500 packages. It has evolved over 20 years to provide a flexible and lightweight solution for various statistical tasks. Developed initially by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993, R continues to be enhanced by a dedicated core team and user contributions.

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R is a powerful, open-source programming language and environment designed for statistical computing, data analysis, and visualization, with a growing community contributing over 7,500 packages. It has evolved over 20 years to provide a flexible and lightweight solution for various statistical tasks. Developed initially by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993, R continues to be enhanced by a dedicated core team and user contributions.

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Chapter 1

Introduction to R

1.1 Overview of R programming

R is a powerful programming language and environment for statistical

computing, data exploration, analysis, and visualization. It is free, open source,

and has a strong, rapidly growing community where users and developers share

their experience and actively contribute to the development of more than 7,500

packages, so that R can deal with problems in a wide range of fields .

R as a programming language: R, as a programming language, has been

evolving and developing over the last 20 years. Its goal is quite clear to make it

easy and flexible to perform comprehensive statistical computing, data explo-

ration, and visualization.

R as a computing environment: R, as a computing environment, is lightweight

and ready to use.Compared to some other famous statistical software, for ex-

ample, MATLAB and SAS, R is much smaller and easier to deploy.

Evolution of R: R is a programming language and software environment for

statistical analysis, graphics representation and reporting. R was initially writ-

ten by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the Department of Statistics of the

University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. R made its first appearance

in 1993.A large group of individuals has contributed to R by sending code and

bug reports. Since mid-1997 there has been a core group (the ”R Core Team”)
who can modify the R source code archive.

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