You're intentionally duplicating effort. Start with R and just continue. Instead you start with Excel and then redo it with R. Seems daft :)
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Replying to @drchriscole @BioMickWatson
There's an important distinction between "seeing the data" (Excel is unarguably good at this) and "working with data" (Excel is unarguably poor at this).
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If limited to just "seeing" the contents I would argue that is fine, although you do not need Excel to do that. Very expensive and bloated for just looking at some columns. Can be done better with better/smaller software.
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Universities and students often have Excel by default, so are used to using it. Showing them that Excel is bad at some things is vital, but most biologists *do* need Excel (or an open variant like LibreOffice, same difference).
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I'm not sure it's same diff really.http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel …
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Other spreadsheet software will munge your gene names/dates. It's not just Excel. It's default formatting/user ignorance/poor automated error checking that spreadsheets suffer from, which is why we teach how to account for this in
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Replying to @froggleston @drchriscole and
Ah, that makes sense. But I am still worried about dependance on Excel. Can't we move to something more (financially) sustainable? It would help people who don't get free stuff from MS too.
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Replying to @o_guest @drchriscole and
LibreOffice is completely free, and is almost identical in terms of functionality.
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Replying to @froggleston @drchriscole and
I'm aware but have no idea if it's good. Don't use any spreadsheet software except Google Sheets and that very very rarely. My data comes from code I write myself so I'm in a diff boat and I can generate it to my needs 100%.
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Replying to @o_guest @froggleston and
I don't use LibreOffice much myself, but a lot of people I know do - and when I use it, it doesn't cause any problems that Excel wouldn't
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Too many repetitive side-threads. I'm loosing track. 
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