Date:         Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:28:06 -0800
Reply-To:     bob mcconnaughey <bobmcconn@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         bob mcconnaughey <bobmcconn@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: numbers "that look like" characters in Excel to SAS
Comments: To: Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
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right..works great if you don't mind that reading in
data now takes about 3-4 times as long as it did when
data was simply double keyed entered raw data files.
Not to mention the innumerable ways in which project
managers, lab techs, and PIs can totally hose a
"dataset" that's in excel and have NO idea of what
they've done.

I suspect the quantity of data has increased
exponentially and the quality decreased by an equal
amount via excel.
--- Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET> wrote:

> Excel works fine. It is the interface between Excel
> and everything else that
> causes a problem.
>


Bob McConnaughey
Westat/NIEHS | Pittsboro, NC

"There is a great homeland of intelligence and love from which no one can be expelled"
Carlos Fuentes



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