I've been working on a startup that is heavily reliant on R for more then a year. R is not at all an easy language to use/learn. I have never been able to rea

I've been working on a startup that is heavily reliant on R for more then a year. R is not at all an easy language to use/learn. I have never been able to really find what I would call a good resource for learning R. The online manual has incomprehensible examples, very rarely shows the output, and has very vague descriptions about what any method does. Additionally all the datatypes are bizarre. I would recommend to anyone trying to learn R to digest the all the online books/materials on the Rattle site, and then to use Rattle heavily and look at the logs it produces. Also getting R to work with php is unpleasant and involves reading a fair amount of Spanish comments. All that hate said. I really love R and I don't know what I would be doing if it didn't exist.