The issue Greg mentions, that "most scientists store their experimental data in MS-Excel spreadsheets" is the motivation for one of the sessions at the Interface 2007 conference http://sbm.temple.edu/interface07/index.html in Philadelphia, May 23-26, 2007
Erich and Thomas designed the RExcel interface. Naras uses RExcel. Robert uses the interface between S-Plus and Excel. Accessible Interfaces to Advanced Statistics Software Richard Heiberger, organizer Erich Neuwirth, Thomas Baier, An Office-Software and Menu-Driven Interface for Advanced Statistics in the Biological Sciences Narasimhan Balasubramanian, Disseminating Statistical Methodology and Results via R and Excel: Two Examples Robert Gagnon, Analysis and Visualization of Microarray Gene Expression Data Using Excel, SAS, and SPlus ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
