Patrick, A very interesting and useful read, but following up on your final point, should anyone be interested, Quatro Pro allows for 18,000 columns rather than the 256 columns of Excel, and has done for as many versions back as I can remember.
Not being expert enough in R I have found that this ability of Quattro allows me to prepare a data set for importing into a Stats program that is far larger than Excel can cope with. Having said that, like most people, my day to day spreadsheet is Excel. Graham > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Burns > Sent: 03 January 2005 10:55 > To: R Help, Listserve > Subject: [R] spreadsheet addiction > > There's a new page on the Burns Statistics website > http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html > that looks at spreadsheets from a quality assurance > perspective. It presents R as a suitable alternative to > spreadsheets. Also there are several specific problems with > Excel that are highlighted, including the status of > statistical functionality in Excel. > > Patrick Burns > > Burns Statistics > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +44 (0)20 8525 0696 > http://www.burns-stat.com > (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > > > > __________ NOD32 1.953 (20041219) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.nod32.com > > ______________________________________________ [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
