Dear all I'd like to give RExcel a decent spin, mainly to take advantage of Excel's data management facilities and automatic recalculations. However I cannot use this Windows-only solution on the platform of my choice, Linux. Alternatively I've been considering the cross-platform ROOo, the OpenOffice equivalent of RExcel, but in this case the problem is that the only release available is a beta version from 2009. I wouldn't want to use that for any serious work, nor I am sure that it works with LibreOffice (as OpenOffice is deprecated). Thus is anyone aware of a cross-platform Gnumeric or LibreOffice solution that emulates what RExcel does for Excel on Windows? Regards Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Can you supply a link for ROOo ? I don't see it anywhere. Also what do you mean" OpenOffice is deprecated"? Do you mean in terms of using it with ROOo? Otherwide OOo, now under new management at Apache is under active development under the name Apache Open Office. John Kane Kingston ON Canada> -----Original Message----- > From: landronimirc at gmail.com > Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:52:55 +0100 > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: [R] RExcel, ROOo and LibreOffice inquiry > > Dear all > I'd like to give RExcel a decent spin, mainly to take advantage of > Excel's data management facilities and automatic recalculations. > However I cannot use this Windows-only solution on the platform of my > choice, Linux. > > Alternatively I've been considering the cross-platform ROOo, the > OpenOffice equivalent of RExcel, but in this case the problem is that > the only release available is a beta version from 2009. I wouldn't > want to use that for any serious work, nor I am sure that it works > with LibreOffice (as OpenOffice is deprecated). > > Thus is anyone aware of a cross-platform Gnumeric or LibreOffice > solution that emulates what RExcel does for Excel on Windows? > > Regards > Liviu > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop!
John Kane Kingston ON Canada> -----Original Message----- > From: landronimirc at gmail.com > Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:02:16 +0100 > To: jrkrideau at inbox.com > Subject: Re: [R] RExcel, ROOo and LibreOffice inquiry > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote: >> Can you supply a link for ROOo ? I don't see it anywhere. >> > Oh, sorry. I thought it was obvious: > http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html#ROOoIt should have been. I must need new glasses.> > >> Also what do you mean" OpenOffice is deprecated"? >> >> Do you mean in terms of using it with ROOo? Otherwide OOo, now under >> new management at Apache is under active development under the name >> Apache Open Office. >> > Sun/Oracle discontinued developing OOo and donated it to Apache, which > to my surprise made a recent release. However many Linux distros > switched to LibreOffice, originally forked from OOo in 2010. To my > understanding LibO is the project that should be followed by > end-users.I am not a close follow of the AOO/LibreOffice saga but as far as I know there are good points to each and certainly from my reading of the OOo forums there is no particular reason in general to go with one or the other. Each one has its own peculiarities and minor bugs so which to use seems a matter of personal pereference and specific need at any givin point in time. I suspect the move to LibreOffice with many distros was more a pollcy decision when OOo 's fate was in question. Since the Apache move, it looks like AOO is going to be quite viable. I think that LibreOffice offers a bit better compatibility with MS products. I use both on Ubuntu 12.10 quite happily.> > Since ROOo is beta and rather outdated, I was wondering if there were > an effort to bring an RExcel-like functionality to recent LibO or > Gnumeric releases.Not the slightest idea about that. Sorry I cannot help. You might want to post a question on one of the OOo forums about it. I did not see ROOo in the AOO extensions bank so I'd be worried about it.> > Regards > Liviu____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more!