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Where R rules

Where R rules

From the course: Integrating Tableau and R for Data Science

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Where R rules

- [Narrator] So now, let's try to understand where R rules. Now, R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of Unix platforms, Windows, and macOS. So, it's pretty ubiquitous. And being an open-source platform, R really rules the kingdom when it comes to reuse of statistical models and what they call "packages". Packages are what they sound like. A group of functions and models built into a single unit that you can add to your local instance. R comes with some of these packages out of the box to help you do things like calculate linear regression models, as well as some other common tasks. Now, there are also over 8,000 packages shared via the comprehensive R archive network, or CRAN. You'll see that quite a bit when you're working with R and they can be downloaded directly from a single command inside of R and we'll take a look at that here in a second. Now, this really makes performing rather complex modeling and…

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