[R] Staging area for data before read into R

[Ted Byers]

I wasn't suggesting that the validation requires VB.  

Creating forms and handling form events does (unless MS has introduced new
utilities to hide all that since last I used it).

Some of the most interesting things I have seen done with Excel did involve
VB, and there are better tools to do most of those things.

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Ted Byers <r.ted.byers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are tradeoffs no matter what route you take.
>> You can do validation in Access as you can in Excel, but Excel is not
>> designed to manage data where Access is, and both are crippled by their
>> dependance on VB (a seriouusly broken language: fine for scripting MS
> 
> Excel can do validation without VB.  For example, you can restrict
> data to a certain range of dates, limit choices by using a list, or
> make sure that only positive whole numbers are entered all without
> any VB.
> 
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