Re: [R] (Another) Bates fortune?

2010-02-07 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Peter Ehlers wrote: I vote to 'fortunize' Doug Bates on Hierarchical data sets: which software to use? The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets which encourage the single table with a gargantuan number of columns, most of which are missing data

[R] (Another) Bates fortune?

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Ehlers
I vote to 'fortunize' Doug Bates on Hierarchical data sets: which software to use? The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets which encourage the single table with a gargantuan number of columns, most of which are missing data in most cases approach to organization

Re: [R] (Another) Bates fortune?

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Ehlers wrote: I vote to 'fortunize' Doug Bates on Hierarchical data sets: which software to use? The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets which encourage the single table with a gargantuan number of columns, most of which are missing data in most cases