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Honestly, once you learn them both, it's best to use Illustrator when you need good presentation and R all other times. I can think of very little that Excel ca
by tel 17y ago
Honestly, once you learn them both, it's best to use Illustrator when you need good presentation and R all other times. I can think of very little that Excel can do that can't be done faster in R and prettier with Illustrator.
So I'd condense the argument to: if you're not comfortable with R/Illustrator and don't have time to learn, use Excel.
- jamesshamenski 17y agocan you easily update data feeds to illustrator without having to redo your drafted work?
- tel 17y agoIt's generally for finishing and publication. For rapidly updating graphics, the libraries lattice and ggplot2 are both good enough looking.