Learning R - installation and gettting started

Learning R

I installed R via brew e.g.

>brew install R

which complained it needed fortran compiler which was solved with 

>brew install gfortran

then re ran brew R installation and no problems.

R provides a console, but there seems to be a bunch of front ends (including a Tk front end) but I am happy to run it 'raw'.

actually I lie, I run it inside of emacs org-babel

http://www.sigmafield.org/2010/05/23/introduction-to-using-r-with-org-babel-part-1

so lets get started, oh wait ... don't forget about CRAN 

http://cran.r-project.org/

which has a lot of fine packages for R