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by napoleongl 589 days ago
Another strength of R, albeit via the tidyverse-package, is in data manipulation. It excels in taking some misfit, human friendly, pile of excel-sheets with implied relations and turning it into rectangular data sets that can actually be analysed. Sure there are faster alternatives if you are doing big data, but if you need versatility R is a good friend.