Application: R Portable Description: Some things you might want
to know about R if you are encountering it for the first time: -
R is (according to the description at http://www.r-project.org/)
"a language and environment for statistical computing and
graphics"; you can think of it as a combination of a statistics
package and a programming language. - R is completely free; you
do not have to pay for it, and you can make any modifications
you want to it - R runs on Windows, MacOS, Linux, and many Unix
variants - R is not supported by any commercial enterprise, but
it has a very active development community, and there are
companies that offer training courses etc.. The manuals are
complete and there are many books on it. - R has an enormous
number of standard and cutting-edge statistical functions built
in, a wide variety of (free) add-in packages that add even more
functions, and you can extend it further. Every standard
statistical analysis can be done in R. - R is mostly command-
line driven (although various