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...gle, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it. But R has also quickly found a following because statisticians, engineers and scientists without computer programming skills find it easy to use. "R is really important to the point that it's hard to overvalue it," said Daryl Pregibon, a research scientist at Google, which uses the software widely. "It allows statisticians to do very intricate and complicated analyses without knowing the blood and guts of computing systems." It is also free. R is an open-source program, and its popularity...

...se as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it. But R has also quickly found a following because statisticians, engineers and scientists without computer programming skills find it easy to use. ?R is really important to the point that it?s hard to overvalue it,? said Daryl Pregibon, a research scientist at Google, which uses the software widely. ?It allows statisticians to do very intricate and complicated analyses without knowing the blood and guts of computing systems.? It is also free. R is an open-source program, and its popularity reflects a shi...