[R] Excel

[Rolf Turner]

On 28/08/2007, at 7:16 PM, J Dougherty wrote:

	<snip>

> PS, I quit using Excel for most important work after it returned a  
> negative
> variance on some data I was collecting descriptive statistics on.

Those of you who have not seen it should have a look at Jonathan  
Cryer's commentary
on Excel, available at the URL:

		http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf

Executive summary:  Friends don't let friends use Excel for statistics.

			cheers,

				Rolf Turner

######################################################################
Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confidenti...{{dropped}}