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smortaz

Sure. It can go from very basic:

* Right click on a data frame & "Open in Excel" (to view, chart, massage, etc.) but one way

to something more elaborate like we did for PTVS/Pyvot (two way):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu31s7kXPOg

to

* Using R as a scripting language in Excel, edited/debugged in RTVS (poke the Excel team pls ;))

to

* <your brilliant idea here!>

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> Using R as a scripting language in Excel, edited/debugged in RTVS (poke the Excel team pls ;))

I imagine the Excel team is well aware of how embarrassingly weak the VBA language and Excel object model "quirkiness" is in the year 2016. I simply can't understand why they continue to let such a key platform languish.

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