R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis.
Okay that's from Wikipedia, here it is in English. R was traditionally used for predictive and statistical analysis (basically stats and related graphs). If you were in financial services it was a handy tool to have. NOW it is being used for Big Data Analysis, so even more so. Some of the terms may sound intimidating (Vectors which is a list or array and Matrices which are like multi-dimensional arrays) but it's easy to learn.
https://www.codeschool.com (requires registration) has a web tutorial where you can type code right into the browser and have it executed. The examples are easy to follow and fun.
Once you're seaworthy (yes, everything is about pirates) you can download an R-GUI for Windows, Linux or Mac (yuk) at https://cloud.r-project.org
or Microsoft has R Tools for Visual Studio if you prefer that IDE.
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