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		niels_olson on Jan 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? Think SAS. Their customers have been answering this exact question for a very long time. Give me R with a real GUI and a text editor so I can inspect the CRAN package that tells me 2 + 2 = 3.9999995559

yters on Jan 12, 2009 [–]

Does R Commander fit your needs?

http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/

niels_olson on Jan 17, 2009 | [–]

not even close. That was a quick slap-together for an undergrad class. And the look and feel is just painful. SPSS would be a better model.

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