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A comment on Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel?.

Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by niels_olson on Sunday January 11, 2009 @07:58PM (#429920)
Think SAS. Their customers have been answering this exact question for a very long time. Give me R with a real GUI and a text editor so I can inspect the CRAN package that tells me 2 + 2 = 3.9999995559
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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by yters on Sunday January 11, 2009 @11:26PM (#430087)
Does R Commander fit your needs?

http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by niels_olson on Saturday January 17, 2009 @09:49AM (#438107)
not even close. That was a quick slap-together for an undergrad class. And the look and feel is just painful. SPSS would be a better model.
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