When I started learning Scheme, I took the common approach of learning a new language by implementing features from familiar languages (namely R). That approach sent me down the path of writing the chez-stats and dataframe libraries and porting gnuplot-pipe from Chicken to Chez Scheme. Those three libraries now allow me to conduct simple exploratory data analysis (EDA) in Chez Scheme that should be feel relatively familiar to R programmers. In this post, I will work through a simple example, which mostly serves to reinforce how much better suited R is for these types of tasks.