Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics

Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by cl42 on Friday January 23, 2015 @02:06PM (#8936596)

What about "R Tools for Excel"? I worked on "R4Calc" 6 years ago (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/R_and_Calc) and this project received over 25K downloads before it became inactive.

Having something as easy to use as Excel, with access to R's scripting language, would make my life immensely easier.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by blumkvist on Friday January 23, 2015 @02:26PM (#8936712)

Rexcel? http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by cl42 on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:18PM (#8937008)

Yes, but native support in Excel for R would be much more interesting to me and certainly the businesses we sell to.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by smortaz on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:28PM (#8937738)

yes - i'd love to see native Python & R support in excel as well. they are aware that better scripting support is needed - they just need to hear it from more ppl to make it a priority. i'll point them at this thread meanwhile.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by jghf on Saturday January 24, 2015 @10:12PM (#8941938)

Vote for python

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by blumkvist on Saturday January 24, 2015 @04:15AM (#8939214)

I read somewhere that VBA is replaced by javascript in office 2016, which comes out this summer.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by jwe on Monday January 26, 2015 @05:08PM (#8949905)

Oh wow - I would be really interested in more about this!

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