Re: [R] R and Data Storage

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Snow
You might want to look at sqlite (http://www.sqlite.org/). There is already an R package for accessing these databases and the website shows some GUI interfaces that may be easy enough for tha casual user. Best of all it is small, quick, free, and open source. Greg Snow, Ph.D. Statistical Data

Re: [R] R and Data Storage

2005-10-01 Thread Tobias Verbeke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where I work a lot of people end up using Excel spreadsheets for storing data. This has limitations and maybe some less than obvious problems. I'd like to recommend a uniform way for storing and archiving data collected in the department. Most of the data could be stored

Re: [R] R and Data Storage

2005-10-01 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where I work a lot of people end up using Excel spreadsheets for storing data. This has limitations and maybe some less than obvious problems. I'd like to recommend a uniform way for storing and archiving data collected in the department. Most of the data could be

[R] R and Data Storage

2005-09-30 Thread rab45+
Where I work a lot of people end up using Excel spreadsheets for storing data. This has limitations and maybe some less than obvious problems. I'd like to recommend a uniform way for storing and archiving data collected in the department. Most of the data could be stored in simple csv type files