My mother has a PhD in Cognitive Linguistics and is working at UCSC. She is using R, she hasn't programmed before, so I wonder how well she is doing with R. Well, I will meet her again around Christmas, maybe I could help her out a bit with R, I'm sure there's saomething she has missed, since she's a non-programmer.
What kind of functionalities is she using? I'm working on some articles and an app to help people learn R, especially people who are scared of programming or don't like it. I'm interested in learning what problems R beginners in different fields face. Feel free to drop me a line (see email in profile).
I'm talking with her on Skype atm, she's telling me that she hasn't starting using it yet, but that she went to a course at UCSB held by Stefan Th. Gires about R.
She is going to start using it in January when she gets some new corpus material.