[R] Excel

James Reilly reilly at stat.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Aug 30 10:28:50 CEST 2007


On 30/8/07 6:42 AM, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> There is one feature in Excel which is extremely convenient, Pivot
> tables. Anybody doing any work as statistical consultant really ought to
> know about Pivot tables, and I am still surprised how many statisticians
> do not know about it. Neither Gnumeric nor OpenOffice Calc offer
> comparably convenient ways working with multidimensional tables.

I'm not familiar with Gnumeric, but OpenOffice has provided the similar 
DataPilot feature for at least three years; see for example 
http://www.openofficetips.com/blog/archives/2004/09/datapilot_101.html

James
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