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Business case analyses that are typically developed in spreadsheets are fraught with a lack of transparency and prone to propagating significant coding errors. The R programming language provides a better alternative for creating clear and minimal-error analysis.
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You will find other examples of spreadsheet errors at Raymond Panko’s web site at http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/index.htm . Panko researches the cause and prevalence of spreadsheet errors.
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Spreadsheets allow the use of named references, but the naming convention can become unwieldy if sections in an array need different names.
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Brown III, R.D. (2018). A Relief from Spreadsheet Misery. In: Business Case Analysis with R. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3495-2_1
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