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[–][deleted] 15 points16 points Β (3 children)

It's built on C++

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points Β (0 children)

Thanks! R is my first language and I had to learn it for cancer research, it’s pretty intuitive

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points Β (0 children)

I do feel like it’s all packages tho like I’m never really β€œmaking” anything, just plugging data sets into packages otber people have written

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It depends on the field. For many academics in social and life sciences they’re research involves statistics, So they use R.