R Computing for Data Mining

The NYTimes has an overview article on the open source R Computing Language. Emphasizing its use for data mining applications. Not a bad article, but they start out implying that it is meant to be a general purpose language, as opposed to a statistical and data modeling approach, which is misleading. Still a good read. I think the WP article on R is good as well. Update: Anne Milley of SAS comments on the R article.