[baldfat]

Term newbies in R was what the poster before stated.

Personally I would NOT want to have anyone use R with a spreadsheet program.

1) I want manipulated data that is clear to replicate

2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet

[Mikeb85]

> 2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet

Knitr for the win! Seriously great package (and integrated nicely into R Studio), I use it for all my reports, presentations, etc...

[peatmoss]

I'm finding myself loving org-babel more and more. I also love knitr, but in comparison org-babel:

- Works with just about any language you can imagine, not just R or the few other hypothetically supported languages

- Allows me to write in a lightweight Markdown-comparable, LaTeX-augmentable syntax, except org-mode supports internal references.

- Lets you do truly obscene things like pass values from bash, to python, to julia, to R

As Emacs begins to move more and more to Guile, I hope that the org-* functionality can be instrumented as embeddable libraries. I understand that Emacs isn't for everyone, and thus I wish org-mode (the format) and org-babel were available to the rest of the world. I was surprised to find how few edge-cases aren't better handled by org-* than knitr / RMarkdown.

[jackmaney]

Agreed. 99% of the time, I only use Excel as a CSV viewer (and it's a rather clunky and error-prone CSV viewer at that).