Why do you think Excel is a terrible tool? In what ways have you tried to use
Excel and it has failed you?
Regards,
Indrajit
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From: Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz>
Cc: R-help <R-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [R] introducing R to high school students
On 22/04/12 15:29, Indrajit Sengupta wrote:
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> 1. At school we seldom deal with lot of data - the focus is more on concepts.
> Excel is an excellent tool
That is at best debatable, and IMHO just plain incorrect. I firmly believe
that Excel is a ***TERRIBLE*** tool.
> and no matter how much we love or hate it - we will be using Excel a lot in
> our lives.
This is not (unfortunately IMHO) debatable. It is all too sadly true. For
most
people at least. (Not for my very good self. I can get away with eschewing
Excel. Most people are not lucky enough to have that option.)
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I think much of the remainder of the post was highly disputable as well,
but I will desist at this point.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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