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The R Project provides the R ‘statistical environment’ – a command driven statistical calculator with considerable graphics capability and plenty of routines. The ‘commands’ are actually part of a full programming language for doing statistics so entire applications can be built within the environment.

The R software is Open Source (capital OS) and pre-compiled binaries can be downloaded for Mac OS X, Windows and various flavours of Linux. I have downloaded all 40Mb of the Mac OS .dmg version so I can create some effective graphs and charts.

• A graphics and chart library showing what can be done with R packages
• I like the balloon plot
• The back to back histograms are quite handy for gender comparisons and population age structure graphs
• Edgar Anderson and the Iris data set

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