Re: David's example ---> *"E.g. A data frame of three continuous variables x,y,z*
*Plot X against Y then put a ring around the top 10 values by z"* Would it be possible to provide a solution to your example in both Excel/R [an end image or even greater detail?] Difficult/time consuming for someone who doesn't already have a decent working knowledge of both. I'm not sure of which I'd actually find more difficult [realize it might be considered an impossible task in one of the programs]. On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Waldman, Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: C. Titus Brown [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: 05 May 2016 14:41 > > To: Waldman, Simon <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Word and PowerPoint "all wrong"? > > > > The fact of the matter is, Excel has been demonstrated time and > > > > again to be not just inefficient for scientific analysis but usually > out-and- > > out wrong. > > > > > > [citation needed] > > > > Here's one that has had a reasonably significant impact on biology: > > > > http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-5- > > 80 > > Interesting, thank you. I'm not sure that's so much "Excel is wrong" as > "Excel was allowed to make a guess at a data type, and guessed wrong" - but > it certainly has the same effect for the unwary. Worth being aware of. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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