I mean, there is nothing like a little good ol' fashioned copy paste to make you wish you could just press the little "select all button" without killing your computer.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Today I watched Ironman 2...
... while highlighting the data for this project. No, I'm not kidding. I put Ironman 2 on one screen and Excel on the other. I held down the mouse button for 94/112.5 minutes, only to find that 94 minutes of data (even though it was just one vector! I didn't even do the other columns) was too much for the computer to "copy."
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I'm sure you've tried this, but the PC has Excel on it -- maybe it could handle the very large data sets you have better than the Mac? Also, does R have packages for parsing data sets?
ReplyDeleteAnother random thought: my PC also has Excel on it (courtesy of Sparky), so if you just need a big spreadsheet chopped up, I can do that for you.
ReplyDelete:) ... R died when I tried to do it, but I came up with an idea-- I was able to get it into six spreadsheets with the copy paste... then I made custom filters in the Excel so that I can get years and plots separated! Now the challenge is just deciding which way I want to approach the math!
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