Quote Originally Posted by wiggin View Post
Well, yes. But the question is why.
Time. Pragmatism.

Results are needed now now now, not after the time it takes to develop and test a comprehensive and fully-functioning bespoke system in R or Python or SAS or whatever. Excel is ubiquitous, population of data into excel sheets widely understood by those submitting data, import of resulting .csv files simple and straightforward to the engine doing the processing.

And schoolboy errors like this are what happen when you're rushed to deliver.