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Off the Charts newsletter: Why R is the best coding language for data journalism
This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data journalism and the ideas, processes and tools that go into creating it.
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