As a statistician I believe this article shows the strengths of R - fast prototyping methods - easily repeat research with scripts - data visualization - hu

As a statistician I believe this article shows the strengths of R - fast prototyping methods - easily repeat research with scripts - data visualization - huge repository of add-on libraries from many areas of study Sure R has it setbacks. I wouldn't rely on it for a production environment or a substitute for a higher level programming language. Yet if you want to study data and get results rather quick there is few that could compete in this space.