[OGRUG] Inference for R

[Etienne Bellemare Racine]

  Hi Catherine,

Have you taken a look at statconn [1] ? Maybe it could be a good (free) 
compromise between Inference and Sweave especially, I think, if you want 
to treat R data, but not necessarily have an integrated process.

Cheers,
Etienne

[1] http://www.statconn.com/
> Hello R users,
>
> I am currently taking "Inference for R" for a test drive. This is an
> add-on for Excel that allows you to pull R code into an Excel
> spreadsheet, treating Excel data tables as R dataframes. It then spits
> out the results to an Excel worksheet.  Very slick, with a shorter
> learning curve than Sweave or ODFweave.
>
> The only problem is that it markets itself through an annual license
> fee. The fee itself is not high for what you get -- the ability to turn
> a piece of office furniture into a stats package -- but before I pitch
> this to my manager, I would like some reassurance that Blue Reference
> (the company that writes the software) is likely to stick around for a
> while.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with "Inference for R"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Catherine Collins, PhD
> CHEO