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Comment author: Lumifer 05 September 2014 02:48:11PM *  4 points [-]

What is R?

It's a programming language and environment which is widely used in the statistical community, in part because it has a LOT of statistics-related libraries available for it.

Historically, it's an open-source re-implementation of the programming language S developed at Bell Labs in mid-70s.