Can't you just set a link to our server? I do not know how to embed it. I used Camtasia to produce this video, and it does all the embedding.
Ajay ohri wrote: > Hi Erich, > > I would like to share and embed the RExcel Training video (just like > youtube allows me to) . How can I do that ? > > Regards, > > Ajay > > www.decisionstats.com <http://www.decisionstats.com> > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Ajay ohri <ohri2...@gmail.com > <mailto:ohri2...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Erich, > > I saw that it uses a remote server ( which can be the same machine ) > to compute. > > > Here is the question- > > What is the remote server is Amazon EC2 which has upscalaing and > downscaling facillity for RAM and CPU... > > Will it work ? > > is there a SaaS version of this? > > Regards, > > Ajay > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Erich Neuwirth > <erich.neuwi...@univie.ac.at <mailto:erich.neuwi...@univie.ac.at>> > wrote: > > There is RExcel (available by downloading the CRAN package > RExcelInstaller. It allows to transfer data between R and Excel, > and run R code from within Excel. So you can start with your data in > Excel, let R do an analysis, and transfer the results back to Excel. > You can write VBA macros which do this, but "hidden from exposure", > so the Excel user does not even notice that R is doing the hatd > work. > It also has an Excel worksheet function RApply which allows > to call an R function from an Excel cell formula. > =RApply("rfun",A1) > would apply the R function rfun to the value in cell A1. > If the value in A1 changes, Excel will force R to recalculate > the formula. > > There is a (half hour long) video demo about RExcel > at http://rcom.univie.ac.at/RExcelDemo/ > > http://rcom.univie.ac.at/ has more information about the project. > For recent information, visit the Wiki on this site. > > This site also has the alpha version of an OpenOffice add-in > giving roughly the same functionality. > It is available at > http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download/ROOo/ > > > The main source of information about this project is > the mailing list. You can subscribe also via the project server, > http://rcom.univie.ac.at > > > > ohri2...@gmail.com <mailto:ohri2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Even using the VBA back of Excel to create interfaces with R would > > make a lot of sense. Suppose I could have access to VBA macros > that > > import and export data into R , it would be great. > > > > The R GUI series like Rattle come even closer to Excel...so a VBA > > _R_ExCel package might be useful to ordinary folks . > > > > Besides Excel costs money, so adding R functions to Open > Office would > > help both of them ( if not attempted already) > > > > Regards, > > > > Ajay > > > > www.decisionstats.com <http://www.decisionstats.com> > > > > On 1/8/09, Stavros Macrakis <macra...@alum.mit.edu > <mailto:macra...@alum.mit.edu>> wrote: > >>> "Some people familiar with R describe it as a supercharged > version of > >>> Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software..." > >>> > >> It is easy to ridicule this line from the NYT article. But > this is not only > >> a very sensible comment by a smart reporter, but also one > that is good for > >> R: > >> > >> It is good for R because it explains the new (R) in terms of > the familiar > >> (Excel). Of course R can do far more than Excel ever could, > but most > >> readers will not be familiar with boxplots, let alone > studentized bootstrap > >> confidence intervals, yet R is useful even for elementary > analyses. > >> > >> It is good for R because it will bring us new users. I have > often looked > >> over the shoulders of Excel users struggling to do analyses > or construct > >> graphics that are just slightly beyond what Excel makes easy. > Perhaps the > >> dataset is too large, or the analysis doesn't fit into the > spreadsheet > >> model, or the analysis isn't built-in (and so requires either > many manual > >> steps, or Visual Basic programming, or an expensive add-on > package), or it > >> requires data sources that Excel doesn't handle well, or it > has gotten so > >> complicated that it is unmaintainable in spreadsheet form. R > scales better > >> in every way: in size of problem, in complexity of analysis, > in data > >> sources. > >> > >> It is good for R because it makes it sound unthreatening and > easy, both for > >> the person who might consider using R rather than Excel, and > for his/her > >> management. Of course, R is not trivial to learn, but you > don't have to > >> master everything about it to get useful results (just like > Excel, I might > >> add). > >> > >> It is good for R because it reminds us that there are other > useful computing > >> paradigms that we can learn from. The spreadsheet model, > including instant > >> update, is compelling for a wide range of problems. I have > not used any of > >> the R/Excel interface packages, but presumably they combine > the advantages > >> of the approaches. Perhaps there is room for not just > integrating R with > >> Excel, but for incorporating the core ideas of Excel into R > in some > >> intelligent way. > >> > >> It is good for R because it shows areas where R can be > improved. Excel > >> makes it very easy to present tabular data and format it. It > makes it very > >> easy to work with summary/contingency tables (pivot tables) > interactively > >> and only a little more difficult to do drill-down. In all > cases, its > >> functionality is limited, but what it can do, it does well. > >> > >> It is good for R because it reminds us that there are many > people using > >> other tools who could benefit from outreach from the R > community, both > >> through tools (smoother interoperability) and through education. > >> > >> All in all, characterizing R as a supercharged version of > Excel makes a lot > >> of sense. > >> > >> -s > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> 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. > >> > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1882 - Release > Date: 1/8/2009 8:13 AM > > > > -- > Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna > Faculty of Computer Science > Computer Supported Didactics Working Group > Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at > Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1882 - Release Date: 1/8/2009 > 8:13 AM > -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
