Now here’s an amaz­ing thing, though not a new one except for me, that I hap­pened across while fol­low­ing up a weird idea:

A pro­gram­matic inter­face between Microsoft Excel and the R Pro­gram­ming Lan­guage for Sta­tis­tics. It appar­ently lets you drive R from Excel, or Excel from R.

Which is good, if you want to do tech­ni­cally use­ful and inter­est­ing things in a busi­ness envi­ron­ment, or fake busi­nessy things in a tech­ni­cally astute environment.…