[R] Who uses R?

[Patrick Burns]

(Ted Harding) wrote:

>On 25-Sep-07 12:34:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>>On 9/25/2007 7:45 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote:
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>>>On 25-Sep-07 11:11:44, Patrick Burns wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
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>>>>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.
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>>>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?
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>>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.)
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>>Duncan Murdoch
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>Thanks, Duncan! It's good to be sure! Sadly, this has shaken
>my faith in R. But now I know where to turn.
>Best wishes,
>Ted.
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Sadly I'm deprived of Excel 2007 myself, but apparently
this discussion so far doesn't fully acknowledge Excel's
innovation in quantum computing. It seems that both 100,000
and 65,535 are possible answers, which one you get depends
on which slit is open at the moment.

Pat

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