一种软件能不能吸引很多人 学习，关键在于其适用性。

下面是CRAN Task Views对R软件的主要用途的分类（红绝部分可能是较多人感兴趣的）：

Bayesian	Bayesian Inference
ChemPhys	Chemometrics and Computational Physics
Cluster	Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models
Distributions	Probability Distributions
Econometrics	Computational Econometrics
Environmetrics	Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data
ExperimentalDesign	Design of Experiments (DoE) & Analysis of Experimental Data
Finance	Empirical Finance
Genetics	Statistical Genetics
Graphics	Graphic Displays & Dynamic Graphics & Graphic Devices & Visualization
gR	gRaphical Models in R
HighPerformanceComputing	High Performance and Parallel Computing
MachineLearning	Machine Learning & Statistical Learning
Multivariate	Multivariate Statistics
NaturalLanguageProcessing	Natural Language Processing
Optimization	Optimization and Mathematical Programming
Pharmacokinetics	Analysis of Pharmacokinetic Data
Psychometrics	Psychometric Models and Methods
Robust	Robust Statistical Methods
SocialSciences	Statistics for the Social Sciences
Spatial	Analysis of Spatial Data
Survival	Survival Analysis
TimeSeries	Time Series Analysis

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