Smoother but not smooth. I once, not by choice, taught R to humanities grad students who had never programmed before. The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the

Smoother but not smooth. I once, not by choice, taught R to humanities grad students who had never programmed before. The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the course that semester was considerable, and I have stoutly refused to ever do it again. The irony of it was that they really didn't need to do anything that couldn't be done in Excel.