rfortunes: The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets which encourage the "single table with a gargantuan number of columns, most of which are missing data in most cases" approach to organization of longitudinal data is regrettable. -- Douglas Bates (in a discussion about software for hierarchical data sets) R-help (February 2010) #Rstats

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The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets which encourage the "single table with a gargantuan number of columns, most of which are missing data in most cases" approach to organization of longitudinal data is regrettable.
-- Douglas Bates (in a discussion about software for hierarchical data sets)
R-help (February 2010) #Rstats