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During the last decade, the R programming language has become one of the most widely used tools for statistics and data science. Its application runs the gamut from data preprocessing, cleaning, web scraping and visualization to a wide range of analytic tasks such as computational statistics, econometrics, optimization, and natural language processing. In 2012 R had over 2 million users and continues to grow by double digit percentage points every year. R has become an essential analytic software throughout industry; being used by organizations such as Google, Facebook, New York Times, Twitter, Etsy, Department of Defense, and even in presidential political campaigns... R is an open source software created over 20 years ago by Ihaka and Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. However, its history is even longer as its lineage goes back to the S programming language created by John Chambers out of Bell Labs back in the 1970s.1 R is actually a combination of S with lexical..