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   by nokome 8y ago

   Hi yoz, Stencila dev here. Thank for your interest. We're definitely still around! Development of the frontend has indeed slowed down while we focus on more lower-level "backend" tools for research reproduciblity (e.g. https
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   by nokome 8y ago

   Just a quick word of thanks for SheetJs from a Stencila dev! All the "mindnumbing testing and grinding work that honestly no one really wants to do" is obvious and much appreciated. Your efforts are so important for the ensuring i
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   by nokome 8y ago

   Yes, we'd love to have real-time collaboration, preferably in a decentralised way using Dat!
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   by nokome 8y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. Comments and "track changes" are a commonly requested feature, important for collaboration, and certainly something we want to implement!
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   by nokome 8y ago

   Hi, Stencila dev here, thanks for the feedback. There are several modular components that make up Stencila. The user interface modules are indeed built using Javascript, and Node.js is used in a number of places including the desktop and CL
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   by nokome 8y ago

   Hi, Stencila dev here. In my opinion, Stencila is not ready for daily usage. But we are looking for beta testers who are willing to put up with bugs and crashes and help us shape the framework. We have converters, based on Pandoc, which are
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   by nokome 11y ago

   Hey, yeah it's all open. The Dockerfile is here: https://github.com/stencila/stencila/blob/master/docker/ubun... I'm no expert, but it seems to be doing the job. Would appreciate any sugge
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   by nokome 11y ago

   Hey, author here. I used byzanz for this one: https://www.maketecheasier.com/record-screen-as-animated-gif... . For snazzier stuff, Screenflow is good.
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   by nokome 11y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. Your suggestion about named arrays is important and relates the discussion here around the approach taken in the OSX Numbers app and the now dead Lotus Improv. Its connected to a planned feature in Stecnila sheets t
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Hey, that's really cool, thanks for the link. Right now you can't do that...but give us a few weeks. We are planning to implement conditional cell formatting using CSS i.e. cell CSS styles as a function of R expressions https:&#x
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Absolutely. I think it is the rapid prototyping aspect of spreadsheets that is perhaps the most powerful. For analysing large amounts of data they are obviously not great. But they excel (pardon the pun) at providing an environment in which
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    by nokome 11y ago

    @debacle, thanks for the nice feedback. Regarding cell names. Currently every cell has an "id" e.g. A1 which is represented in the background R session as the variable A1. If you enter a formula like "pi = 3.14" into cel
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Thanks for the comment. Yes, the title of the article does sound negative (I was just trying to for something that caught the eye - something that is perhaps harder to do these days than back in 1991 when Linux was released). But the body o
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Thanks for the comments. Actually, I was just working on importing Excel spreadsheets into Stencila sheets last night. Some interesting aspects involved in translating Excel formulas into R expressions e.g. `AVERAGE(A1:A5)` to `mean(A1:A5)`
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Hey, Stencila developer here. Thanks, nxsheet looks really nice - great work too! I agree, somehow getting spreadsheets into the workflow of reproducible data analysis is important. They are a tool that I for one had ignored (focussing inst
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Thanks again for the interest. I've launched a few more workers on EC2 for all of you attempting to play with the demo sheet (each of you gets a Docker container running an R session). Things seem to have stabilized for now. A good rob
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Thanks for the link. I was aware of Pyspread (which sound similar) but not of Resolver One - I'll add a link in the article
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Yes, you're right this doesn't solve all the issues with spreadsheets as a programming environment. The "averaging over the right data" is a big one, and yes, being able to diff a text file won't help that. Thanks a
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Hi, article author here. I have never used Improv but while researching for this work I did read about it and yes, it did seem to have introduced several innovations to address flaws in the spreadsheet approach. The OSX Numbers app seems to
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Hey, Stencila developer here. Yes, I agree. I recently came across the Numbers app when I was writing this. I haven't used it but from what I have read it seems to have some really good ideas for improving the spreadsheet interface.
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Yes, I think that they certainly help at making spreadsheets more readable. At present Stencila sheets only has named cells but one of the things we want to add soon is mapping of cells onto underlying `data.frames` or matrices. In other wo
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Thanks for the comment. "Spreadsheets are dead, long live spreadsheets!" does actually capture the intent of the article more accurately. But I used "..., long live reactive programming environments!" because I wanted t
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Hey, thanks for pointing that out. Fixed now. I actually got it wrong in all three places I mentioned him :(
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    by nokome 11y ago

    Hey, Stencila developer here. Thanks to the original poster for sharing the link and for all the interest. Unfortunately, the site is not handling all that interest too well (R session hosting instances filling up, timeouts,...). I'm w