[R] Excel

[John Kane]

--- Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> 
> On 28/08/2007, at 7:16 PM, J Dougherty wrote:
> 
> 	<snip>
> 
> > PS, I quit using Excel for most important work
> after it returned a  
> > negative
> > variance on some data I was collecting descriptive
> statistics on.
> 
> Those of you who have not seen it should have a look
> at Jonathan  
> Cryer's commentary
> on Excel, available at the URL:
> 
> 		http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf
> 
> Executive summary:  Friends don't let friends use
> Excel for statistics.
> 
> 			cheers,
> 
> 				Rolf Turner

And perhaps beware of them at any time?  They're great
tools but all–to–often are miss-used.
http://www.eusprig.org/