[R] naive question

[Igor Rivin]

I was not particularly annoyed, just disappointed, since R seems like
a much better thing than SAS in general, and doing everything with a combination
of hand-rolled tools is too much work. However, I do need to work with very large data sets, and if it takes 20 minutes to read them in, I have to explore other
options (one of which might be S-PLUS, which claims scalability as a major 
, er, PLUS over R).