More and more SAP products integrate "R" as data processing, statistical modeling language of choice
Widely used in the academic world, originally designed by and for statisticians, R has become a symbol for data scientists. 
Example above of R with RGui frontend plotting a 6 million rows dataset.
Acquiring R expressiveness in our skill set is now a strategic achievement in the BI sector, so we have composed a list of resources available on the Internet for auto-training in R skills:
Data Analysis and Statistical Inference Course
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