Users can interact with the data through Excel or a language like R, but all the data and the calculations are consistent, he said.

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About 13, 000 students from around the world will start taking an online statistics course at Wesleyan University in Connecticut next week using SAS On-Demand and the R language.

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The hype has been helped in no small part by controversy around the R-rated film's excessive violence and language, much of which is doled out by actress Chloe Grace Moretz, who was 11 when she played the role of Hit Girl.

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Those are extraordinary home video numbers for an R-rated movie that's in a foreign language and features graphic violence.

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But on February 1st, he started a new job as CEO of Revolution Analytics, the company supporting, spreading, and enhancing R, the open-source statistics and predictive analytics programming language.

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Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), would have made the Senate bill's abortion language nearly identical to that adopted by the House last month.

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