Can Ruby interface with r?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.