[R] Best cross-platform OSS GUI CSV management application?

Ista Zahn istazahn at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 02:40:54 CEST 2014


Not an R question, so off topic here. But I think this is what they
invented wikipedia for: see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_spreadsheet_software

Best,
Ista

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Grant Rettke <gcr at wisdomandwonder.com> wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> Suppose that /the business/ want to store tabular data inside of a
> file. They want manage that file using a GUI program that runs on OSX,
> Linux, and Windows.  Additionally, it needs to be OSS and *not* MS Word.
>
> Two options that immediately come to mind are [LibreOffice] and
> [OpenOffice.]
>
> The desire is that they could manage it in a format exportable to CSV so
> that `R' could use it.
>
> Specifically, they are looking for a tool that would export the data to
> a CSV format that `R' was happy with /right out of the box/.
>
> Have you found any good solutions that are similar or identical to this
> and what are they?
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> [LibreOffice] https://www.libreoffice.org/
>
> [OpenOffice.] https://www.openoffice.org/
>
> Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF
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