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Re:Try R — A new online course, for free by iaw on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @10:39PM (#4880161)
Nope, that's one way to look at it (especially if you're sticking with data frames).

The nice thing about that outlook is that you can essentially automate tasks you would normally perform on a spreadsheet.

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Re:Try R — A new online course, for free by taeric on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @11:55PM (#4880347)
The biggest draw to me is actually the non-visual part of it. I don't get hung up on silly visual things such as column width. Or, where to put the plots I make.

Granted, this has its own downsides. But so far I'm loving it. And yes, being able to essentially save off just what I did so that I can rerun the same tasks again later on a new data set is really really nice.

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