So my first question was "Why?", Then after some digging "Why not just use R?". The best answer I found to that question was on stack overflow: http://stackove

So my first question was "Why?", Then after some digging "Why not just use R?". The best answer I found to that question was on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1427276/j-programming-language-vs-r-programming-language-vs-incanter http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1427276/j-programming-lan... . Which for me said - "Just use R".