[R] Who uses R?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 9/25/2007 7:45 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote:
> On 25-Sep-07 11:11:44, Patrick Burns wrote:
>> Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there
>> are now users of R in many of the largest financial
>> companies in the world.
>> 
>> http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
>> 
>> is one place to look for arguments against Excel.
>> This was just updated to include an amusing numerical
>> bug in Excel 2007. Guess what 850 * 77.1 equals.
> 
> What a nasty little puzzle to set, Patrick! I had to turn
> to OpenOffice Calc, which told me that the answer is 65535.
> Is that right, Patrick? Should I check it on Excel?

Since Excel is the government approved gold standard, you should.  OO 
Calc got it wrong.  The correct Excel answer is 100000.  (Only in 2007; 
Office 97 and 2003 had the same bug as OO Calc, and give 65535.)

Duncan Murdoch