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stcredzero on Nov 11, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN Hackers: What's R's future?

How about a spreadsheet that uses R as its scripting language? (There's one of these for Python.)

util on Nov 11, 2010 | [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RExcel

8ren on Nov 11, 2010 | [–]

I don't know if business people do a lot of scripting (if any) in spreadsheets, because it side-steps the ease-of-use GUI of spreadsheet in favour of a programmer's UI...

something on Nov 11, 2010 | [–]

look inside your average quantitative analysis or risk management group and you'll see that they definitely do.

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