Is this the Pirate language?

[Uncle Gizmo]

"Why do we use R rather than Excel?"

I recently had cause to take a beginners course in R - a language I'm fairly familiar with. One of the other students had never used it before, so we were buddied up in order for me to show them the ropes. The first lesson of R is always the same. Read a CSV, manipulate it a bit, draw a...

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[conception_native_0123]

one of the comments says:

The news stories above will provide some examples of why a script producing a report is safer than sending a spreadsheet around! The same organisation did a paper some time ago claiming a 5% error rate on spreadsheet entries.

I see the spreadsheet as a sketchbook and a script as a finished work (possibly in oils

i didn't know the error rate was that high on spreadsheet entries. WOW. R and Python are being used the world over for data science I believe.