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R Intro

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Summary

This lesson examines the history and competitive advantage of R in the era of big data. R was originally developed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland as a modern implementation of the S language. The main strength of R lies in the ability to naturally represent vector data and the unparalleled ecosystem of graphical packages.

Key points

Created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman based on the S language
Wide community support with over tens of thousands of packages in CRAN and Bioconductor
Supports vectorized operations without manual looping
It can be integrated with other languages like C, C++, Python, and SQL

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