3.5 Reasons to Switch from Excel to R

Main points:

• what is done in spreadsheets can be done in R
• the vast majority of people who could benefit from R are not using it
• spreadsheets are dangerous for complex analyses
• debugging spreadsheets is close to impossible
• spreadsheets are slow
• spreadsheets (for some reason) tend to have ugly graphics

annotated slides (pdf)

Presented 2009 March at LondonR.