First of all, if you know what R is then please skip down the page to the Packages section of this post which gives R packages that can be used, with some relevant code to get you started. What is R? The R website has an about page which can be found here https://www.r-project.org/about.html, but the crux of what is said on this page is that R is a large calculator with the most extraordinary number of buttons for as many functions as you can imagine. Functions are essentiall