[R] [OT] (slightly) - OpenOffice Calc and text files

[Schwab,Wilhelm K]

It will get a good look, as will gnumeric - thanks to all!

Bill



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From: Albyn Jones [jones at reed.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:14 PM
To: Schwab,Wilhelm K
Subject: Re: [R] [OT] (slightly) - OpenOffice Calc and text files

emacs shows you exactly what is there, nothing more nor less.
it isn't a spreadsheet, but tabs will align columns.

albyn

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:53:46PM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> Albyn,
>
> I'll look into it.  In fact, I have a small book on it that I bought in my very early days of using Linux.  I quickly found TeX Maker (for the obvious), Code::Blocks for C/C++ and I would not have started the move without a working Smalltalk (http://pharo-project.org/home).
>
> For editing data files, I really just want something that shows data in an understandable grid and does not do weird stuff thinking it's being helpful.
>
> Bill
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Albyn Jones [jones at reed.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:39 PM
> To: Schwab,Wilhelm K
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] [OT] (slightly) - OpenOffice Calc and text files
>
> How about emacs?
>
> albyn
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:13:03PM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > <.....>
> > Have any of you found a nice (or at least predictable) way to use OO Calc to edit files like this?  If it insists on thinking for me, I wish it would think in 24 hour time and 4 digit years :)  I work on Linux, so Excel is off the table, but another spreadsheet or text editor would be a viable option, as would configuration changes to Calc.
> >
> > Bill
> >
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