Being able to have everyone install it on every computer, without any thought of licensing definitely gets it in the door for some people. The interactive natu

Being able to have everyone install it on every computer, without any thought of licensing definitely gets it in the door for some people. The interactive nature of it is handy compared to SAS even when that is also available. I've known people to use R first, make a plan, then go back to programming a SAS on the massive data sets that R might not handle as well.