[R] New York Times Article: Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power

Simon Blomberg s.blomberg1 at uq.edu.au
Thu Jan 8 01:15:08 CET 2009


> "Some people familiar with R describe it as a supercharged version of
>  Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software..."

Maybe it's my dry Australian humour, but I think this should go into the
fortunes package.

Simon.
-- 
Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. 
Lecturer and Consultant Statistician 
Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences 
The University of Queensland 
St. Lucia Queensland 4072 
Australia
Room 320 Goddard Building (8)
T: +61 7 3365 2506
http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb
email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au

Policies:
1.  I will NOT analyse your data for you.
2.  Your deadline is your problem.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for 
an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can 
be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey.




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