R is an open source programming language that is used for statistical computing as well as data visualization & is used extensively for the development of software using statistics & performing data analysis. R also provides extensible R packages (more than 10,000) which can be accessed through CRAN or Comprehensive R Archive Network. These R packages can be for specialized computational tools, publication quality figures etc.
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