[R] (Another) Bates fortune?

[Achim Zeileis]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Peter Ehlers wrote:

> I vote to 'fortunize' Doug Bates on
>
> Hierarchical data sets: which software to use?
>
> "The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets
> which encourage the "single table with a gargantuan number of columns,
> most of which are missing data in most cases" approach to organization
> of longitudinal data is regrettable."
>
> http://n4.nabble.com/Hierarchical-data-sets-which-software-to-use-td1458477.html#a1470430

Thanks, added to the devel-version on R-Forge.
Z

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