

They've now turned their attention to help statisticians and other R users.

They are a small group of wicked smart programmers who know how to help other programmers be more efficient. Then Nick introduced me to the folks who have created RStudio. This really inhibited my ability to at first learn then efficiently code in R. Instead I used a clunky system of editing code via a text editor, then copy and pasting or sourcing. However, each of these seemed to require a serious investment of time, and I never did get around to using them (nor did Nick, despite several good-faith attempts). There are a couple of integrated R environments available, including ESS, TINN-R, and others. As a longtime SAS user, one obstacle for me in using R professionally has been figuring out a process for saving and testing code across several work sessions and integrating code composition and execution.
