Quotes "I probably have an unhealthy attraction to the powers of Excel. I taught my daughter how to use it when she was 7. When I teach corporate finance, I try to make sure that my law students come away from the course knowing how to crunch in Excel."
"And R is probably not kept up to speed on the cutting-edge empirical methods as quickly as the traditional packages. " Yep, I'd say an unhealthy attraction to Excel and an stunning lack of knowledge about R. I note that many contributers seem to be pointing out that R is just a bit better than the author seems to think it is. --- On Mon, 10/6/08, Scillieri, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Scillieri, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [R] R on the Freakonomics Blog > To: [email protected] > Received: Monday, October 6, 2008, 4:26 PM > http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/free-super-crunching-so > ftware/ > > >>> This e-mail and any attachments are > confidential, may contain legal, > professional or other privileged information, and are > intended solely for the > addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not > use the information > in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify > the sender. CEG-IP2 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. __________________________________________________________________ [[elided Yahoo spam]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
