In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language. R is one of ...

In this tutorial we create basic visualizations (histograms and box plots) using R. The purpose of these basic visualizations is to see the distribution of a particular variable. The distribution ...

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