Chapter 1 Getting Started
Joshua F. Wiley, Larry A. Pace · Apress eBooks · 2015
There are compelling reasons to use R. Enthusiastic users, programmers, and contributors support R and its development. A dedicated core team of R experts maintains the language. R is accurate, produces excellent graphics, has a variety of built-in functions, and is both a functional language and an object-oriented one. There are (literally) thousands of contributed packages available to R users for specialized data analyses. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.