Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Why not read the 'R Data Import/Export' manual? It ships with R, or can > be accessed from http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html . >
Dear Professor, I'd like to make a suggestion. When I first read some articles ands posts about R's wonderful capabilities, the first thing I tried to do is import some data to which I had fitted distributions in Excel, so I could compare the results with R. However, after reading "R Data Import/Export" and some other references (including the relevant parts of "Introduction to R"), I still found importing excruciatingly difficult and frustrating, and I believe that to be true for many people first approaching R. After a long while I did find the way around it; however, some time later I came across the R Commander package and GUI, which makes these simple tasks really simple. My point is that such unexpected difficulties might deter beginners from ever considering R again. I believe that including a reference to the R Commander package in the "R Data Import/Export" document could be a step forward in this respect. Once the user becomes more familiar with R, they can spend some more time to learn programmed solutions to data importing. Best regards. ----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diego Mazzeo Actuarial Science Student Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/MS-Excel-Data-tf4897353.html#a14231028 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.