I think your first inclination to use R was right. Specifically, consider Diethelm Wuertz's R package called RMetrics, available through either http://cran.r-project.org/package=Rmetrics or http://www.rmetrics.org.
R has pedigree tracing back several decades at Bell Labs, and though its million-plus users are concentrated within academia, it is gaining currency within several high-profile quantitative analysis groups, including Barclays Global Investors. It's extensibility via user-contributed packages has spawned an active developer community.
Please, this is a bug, but it's a display bug. As several posters have pointed out, you can manipulate this value all you want (graph, input it to any function), and it is treated as 65535.
It matters for reading these numbers as symbols, on screen or in print. How often would one come across this precisely calculated number, in a cell that is intended to be read by human eyes? You're more likely to be struck by lightning.
This story is a caricature of a purposefully leaked, politically motivated hatchet job that -- to the glee of the "unnamed sources" who served it up -- got past the Thanksgiving rag tag staff and onto Page One.
It's unclear what this very public investigation about is even about. Misuse of taxpayer dollars? Quinn paid *his own way* to attend two of these technical conferences and was an invited expenses-paid speaker for others. Cozy relationships with corporate sponsors? The article notes that his expenses-paid conferences were sponsored by a "galaxy of computer companies" -- e.g. the free market. Not filling out the proper paperwork? Since when is improper paperwork Page One material? (Maybe Quinn never got the memo about those TPS reports).
So what is Peter J. Quinn guilty of? Being a political liability for Governor and Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney. Having one of your employees piss off the bosses of the world's richest software company is no way to kick off your 2008 campaign fundraising drive.
a distinction can be made between tools (like the Dialectizer, VCRs, or Napster) and any copyright infringment resulting from a tool's use -- (parodied HTML pages, copied movie tapes and MP3s).
the current issue with Dialetizer is not the tool, it's the parodied HTML pages. and since all the pages reside at one place (albeit briefly) - it's a target.
the author of Dialectizer should offer it as a small executable to be downloaded and used locally. users can parody whatever they want with it. and hypersensitive corporations can spend their time chasing after the hard-drives of 100,000 Joe-Bobs.
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Robert,
I think your first inclination to use R was right. Specifically, consider Diethelm Wuertz's R package called RMetrics, available through either http://cran.r-project.org/package=Rmetrics or http://www.rmetrics.org.
R has pedigree tracing back several decades at
Bell Labs, and though its million-plus users are concentrated within academia, it is gaining currency within several high-profile
quantitative analysis groups, including Barclays Global Investors. It's extensibility
via user-contributed packages has spawned an active developer community.
Please, this is a bug, but it's a display bug. As several posters
have pointed out, you can manipulate this value all you want (graph,
input it to any function), and it is treated as 65535.
It matters for reading these numbers as symbols, on screen or in
print. How often would one come across this precisely calculated
number, in a cell that is intended to be read by human eyes? You're
more likely to be struck by lightning.
This story is a caricature of a purposefully leaked, politically motivated hatchet job that -- to the glee of the "unnamed sources" who served it up -- got past the Thanksgiving rag tag staff and onto Page One.
It's unclear what this very public investigation about is even about. Misuse of taxpayer dollars? Quinn paid *his own way* to attend two of these technical conferences and was an invited expenses-paid speaker for others. Cozy relationships with corporate sponsors? The article notes that his expenses-paid conferences were sponsored by a "galaxy of computer companies" -- e.g. the free market. Not filling out the proper paperwork? Since when is improper paperwork Page One material? (Maybe Quinn never got the memo about those TPS reports).
So what is Peter J. Quinn guilty of? Being a political liability for Governor and Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney. Having one of your employees piss off the bosses of the world's richest software company is no way to kick off your 2008 campaign fundraising drive.
the current issue with Dialetizer is not the tool, it's the parodied HTML pages. and since all the pages reside at one place (albeit briefly) - it's a target.
the author of Dialectizer should offer it as a small executable to be downloaded and used locally. users can parody whatever they want with it. and hypersensitive corporations can spend their time chasing after the hard-drives of 100,000 Joe-Bobs.