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I'm an R advocate. I call R the "Excel Buster". I think reproducible research is very important and tools should follow. Excel has its place in fast mathemat
by larrydag 7y ago
I'm an R advocate. I call R the "Excel Buster". I think reproducible research is very important and tools should follow. Excel has its place in fast mathematics prototyping but for reproducible research it is quite lacking.
- educationdata 7y agoI actually think you are more possibly to make mistakes in R than in Excel. Because in Excel you always see the results directly, and you can even easily catch an anomaly in a single cell. But in R it takes one more step to see the results, and you probably won't see results of all the rows directly.
- _Wintermute 7y agoEspecially when R really likes to carry on chugging along with your analysis spitting out nonsense values when it should have failed on something 50 lines ago. sum(1, 2, 3, 10) [1] 16 # great mean(1, 2, 3, 10) [1] 1 # wait, what?
- mycall 7y agoVast majority of Excel users would implode learning R.
- FromHoiPolloi 7y agoCan confirm. Source: am an excel user.