Tiobe index of programming language popularity index has the R language for statistical computin back in its top 10.

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An AI-driven computational toolkit, Gcoupler, integrates ligand design, statistical modeling, and graph neural networks to predict endogenous metabolites that allosterically modulate the GPCR–Gα ...