[R] Odp: How to read percentage and currency data?

[Greg Snow]

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> project.org] On Behalf Of Hrishi Mittal
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> Subject: Re: [R] Odp: How to read percentage and currency data?

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> 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.



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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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