It will get a good look, as will gnumeric - thanks to all! Bill
________________________________________ From: Albyn Jones [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:14 PM To: Schwab,Wilhelm K Subject: Re: [R] [OT] (slightly) - OpenOffice Calc and text files emacs shows you exactly what is there, nothing more nor less. it isn't a spreadsheet, but tabs will align columns. albyn On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:53:46PM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Albyn, > > I'll look into it. In fact, I have a small book on it that I bought in my > very early days of using Linux. I quickly found TeX Maker (for the obvious), > Code::Blocks for C/C++ and I would not have started the move without a > working Smalltalk (http://pharo-project.org/home). > > For editing data files, I really just want something that shows data in an > understandable grid and does not do weird stuff thinking it's being helpful. > > Bill > > > ________________________________________ > From: Albyn Jones [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:39 PM > To: Schwab,Wilhelm K > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] [OT] (slightly) - OpenOffice Calc and text files > > How about emacs? > > albyn > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:13:03PM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > > Hello all, > > <.....> > > Have any of you found a nice (or at least predictable) way to use OO Calc > > to edit files like this? If it insists on thinking for me, I wish it would > > think in 24 hour time and 4 digit years :) I work on Linux, so Excel is > > off the table, but another spreadsheet or text editor would be a viable > > option, as would configuration changes to Calc. > > > > Bill > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] 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. > > > > -- > Albyn Jones > Reed College > [email protected] > > -- Albyn Jones Reed College [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
