> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Hrishi Mittal > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:56 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Odp: How to read percentage and currency data?
[snip] > It's a shame that something which Excel deals with trivially is such a > hack > in R. I believe that this is a consequence of a fundamental difference in the philosophies of the authors of R and the authors of MS Excel. The authors of R assume that their users are intelligent and have a greater understanding of their own data than the authors do. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 ______________________________________________ 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.
