[R] (Another) Bates fortune?

[Peter Ehlers]

I vote to 'fortunize' Doug Bates on

  Hierarchical data sets: which software to use?

"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."

http://n4.nabble.com/Hierarchical-data-sets-which-software-to-use-td1458477.html#a1470430

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Peter Ehlers
University of Calgary