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One of the most important advantages of R is that it allows you to stand on the shoulders of giants. It allows you to load a library of additional functionality, so that you do not waste time writing and debugging something that has been solved before. This allows you to focus on your research and analysis.

Unlike environments like spreadsheets, R is more like a programming language that is extremely flexible, modular, and customizable.