R aficionado Helen DeWitt (PaperPools.com) recently tried out Inference for R and posted about her experience:

http://paperpools.blogspot.com/2009/03/inforr.html

Helen writes:

Well, what can I say? I worked through various examples in the uniformly excellent documentation; sure enough, various Word and Excel files obligingly did nice things with R. I then reached a point at which an example incorporated a plot in Lattice: one followed instructions, and there it was, a beautiful Lattice plot right in the middle of a Word document! Exactly what I had always wanted!

Exactly what I needed for my Guggenheim project!

Ah yes…Guggenheim – now we're cooking. J I'm glad Helen mentioned the documentation. As part of last month's major release, we recently streamlined and updated all of the QuickStarts and How-To Guides to get new users up-and-running quickly. If you haven't already, you should take a test drive of Inference for R!