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Re:Ask HN Hackers: What's R's future? by stcredzero on Thursday November 11, 2010 @09:51AM (#1893958)
How about a spreadsheet that uses R as its scripting language? (There's one of these for Python.)
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Re:Ask HN Hackers: What's R's future? by util on Thursday November 11, 2010 @12:47PM (#1894563)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RExcel
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Re:Ask HN Hackers: What's R's future? by 8ren on Thursday November 11, 2010 @10:24AM (#1894055)
I don't know if business people do a lot of scripting (if any) in spreadsheets, because it side-steps the ease-of-use GUI of spreadsheet in favour of a programmer's UI...
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Re:Ask HN Hackers: What's R's future? by something on Thursday November 11, 2010 @11:16AM (#1894208)
look inside your average quantitative analysis or risk management group and you'll see that they definitely do.
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