[mblake]

Ugh, should've put a [pdf] warning in the title. Other than that, R can indeed be hot, but maybe just in the special 'flavor' Revolution Analytics developed, otherwise it's one of those languages you dread using but are forced to because so much scientific code/packages etc has been written on it, some with no equivalent in other languages.

[maxerickson]

It's also from 2010 (according to the copyright statement in the PDF).

[sonabinu]

just did put in pdf to the title

[j_s]

however you managed to skip past the auto-scribd-autodetection, congratulations! scribd is a mistake.

[mynegation]

It looks like URL parameters after .pdf extension confused the parser that probably expects URL to _end_ with '.pdf'