“By using Excel, which was never designed for scientific research, they institutionalized mouse clicks and other untraceable actions into a scientific workflow, which must be avoided since it makes explaining to others (and to oneself) how to replicate the findings next to impossible and too easily introduces inadvertent mistakes.”
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Period. The replication was carried with R, and additional analysis (easily found online) was done with Stata. Victoria Stodden at What the Reinhart & Rogoff Debacle Really Shows: Verifying Empirical Results Needs to be Routine — The Monkey Cage
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