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R is powerful open-source statistics software. It gains much of its power because the user can attach thousands of packages to perform complex tasks. If you’re mechanically inclined, think of R as a digital socket wrench with many, many, many sockets in the toolbox. My personal favorite package, at least for the moment, is ggplot2, which lets people with no design sense at all – like me – explore data and whip up gorgeous graphics.