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R is a functional programming language with a focus on statistical analysis. It has built-in support for model specifications that can be manipulated as first-class objects, and an extensive collection of functions for dealing with probability distributions and model fitting, both built-in and through extension packages.
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The Tidyverse I refer to here is the ecosystem of Tidyverse packages but not the package tidyverse that only loads the key packages.
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Mailund, T. (2019). Introduction. In: R Data Science Quick Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4894-2_1
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