Installing R
R is a statistical language that has become extremely popular over the last 3-5 years, especially as a platform that can be used for a wide variety of use cases, ranging from simple data mining to complex machine learning algorithms. According to an article posted in IEEE Spectrum in mid-2016, R takes the No. 5 spot among the Top 10 languages in the world.
Open source R can be downloaded from https://www.r-project.org via the CRAN site located at https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html.
Alternatively, you can download R from the Microsoft R Open page at https://mran.microsoft.com/rro/. This was earlier known as Revolution R Open, an enhanced version of open source R released by Revolution Analytics. After Microsoft acquired Revolution ...
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