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Migrating to R: As Easy As 1, 2, 3

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There are compelling reasons to use R. An enthusiastic community of users, programmers, and contributors support R and its evolution. R is accurate, produces excellent graphs, has a variety of built-in functions, and is both a functional language and an object-oriented one. R is completely free and is distributed as open-source software. Here is how to get started. It really is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

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Pace, L.A. (2014). Migrating to R: As Easy As 1, 2, 3. In: R Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0130-5_1

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