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
Presented 2009 March at LondonR.
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