After four months of fine-tuning and polishing, I'm pleased to announce that we have finally released the commercial version of Inference for R. I'd like to thank those of you who have stayed with us over the last year and provided many suggestions for to how to make Inference a better and more-useful product. That said, I want to make it clear that this is just the beginning. As a product, Inference for R will continue to evolve and improve as time goes forward. And again, I need your help to make this happen! If you have product suggestions or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact me at development@bluereference.com.

A one-year subscription to Inference for R can now be purchased from our Purchase page. Additionally, all academic users can apply for a free Academic License.

So without further ado, here's a list of what's new and what's fixed in the first commercial release of Inference for R:

What's New:

• Object Browser
• New Keyboard Shortcut Keys
• Inputs in Excel now identify datatype on creation
• New Table DataFrame input style for Excel
• Input/Output sheets created for Parts Container Excel documents
• Expression output can be placed in headers and footers in Word and Excel
• Document Execution in Inference Studio
• HTML File support (used for HTML tables)
• SharePoint document execution
• New "How-To" samples
• Streamlined QuickStart documents
• 64-bit support
• Improved DataFrame API
• Improved document execution error handling
• Improved document execution process
• Many other usability improvements

What's Fixed:

• Significant memory leak when opening code block and expression editors
• Word drop-down menu instability fixed
• Improved installation detects running instances of Office applications, and Word as Outlook email editor (Office 2003)
• Inference Online Proxy Error resolved
• Over 100 defect fixes