Can Ruby interface with r?
r, ruby
Solution
See RSRuby for accessing R functionality through Ruby.
As for a beginner's tutorial, try looking at "R For Beginners". I found it helpful when I had to learn some basic R for a statistics course.
Problem
A friend needs to do some R programming for her PhD and since I'm a programmer, asked me to give her a hand. So I took a look at some r related webstuff and discovered that you can interact with it through RPy (python) and statistics::R (perl). Is there a way for Rubyists to hook into R? Is there a dummy's guide to learning R (like a video series)?