And we have written before at ReadWriteWeb about the increasing popularity of the open source statistical programming language r.

之前我们读写网也介绍过开源统计编程语言r也变得越来越流行。

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R is both a strongly functional programming language and a general environment for statistical exploration of data sets.

R既是一门强大的函数式程序设计语言，也是一个用来对数据集进行统计探索的通用环境。

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The R re-implementation of S owes much of its design to working with the Scheme programming language.

R 是对 S 的重新实现，它的设计要归功于 Scheme 编程语言。

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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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