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The R package system is a widely used open source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics - GNU's S-Plus. It provides a high-level programming environment together with a sophisticated packaging and testing paradigm. It has a number of mechanisms that allow it to interact directly with software that has been written in many different languages .
These tools allow users to incorporate modules based on other work. Viewed in that context, adopting R as a vehicle does not exclude other development environments and paradigms. R can, in those cases, provide a glue or connectivity linking what might otherwise be different products. Finally, R is under very active development by a dedicated team of researchers with a strong commitment to good documentation and software design.
This version allows the run on multiple processors using "Parallel" package.
module load profile/bioinf
module help r
Full documentation for R is available on the web (http://www.r-project.org).
Documentation for most of the functions and variables in the R packages exists, and can be printed on-screen by typing on the R prompt
R> help(name) (or)
R> ?name
where name is the name of the topic help is sought for.
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