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Norman Nie, one of the founders of SPSS, calls R [55] “The most powerful statistical computing language on the planet.”1 Written by Ross Ihaka, Robert Gentleman, the R Core Development Team, and an army of volunteers, R provides both a language and a vast array of analytical and graphical procedures. The fact that this level of power is available free of charge has dramatically changed the landscape of research software.
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Muenchen, R.A. (2011). Introduction. In: R for SAS and SPSS Users. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0685-3_1
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