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 Gnumeric 1.8.1 |
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| Original author(s) | Miguel de Icaza |
| Developer(s) | GNOME Office team |
| Initial release | December 31, 2001 |
| Stable release | 1.10.17 (July 31, 2011[1]) [±] |
| Preview release | [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform (Windows XP & newer) |
| Type | Spreadsheet |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ |
Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project. Gnumeric version 1.0 was released December 31, 2001. Gnumeric is distributed as free software under the GNU GPL license; it is intended to replace proprietary and other spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel, which it broadly and openly emulates.[citation needed] Gnumeric was created and developed by Miguel de Icaza,[2] but he has since moved on to other projects. The current maintainer is Jody Goldberg.
Gnumeric has the ability to import and export data in several file formats, including CSV, Microsoft Excel (write support for the more recent .xlsx format is incomplete[3]), HTML, LaTeX, Lotus 1-2-3, OpenDocument and Quattro Pro; its native format is the Gnumeric file format (.gnm or .gnumeric), an XML file compressed with gzip.[4] It includes all of the spreadsheet functions of the North American edition of Microsoft Excel[citation needed] and many functions unique to Gnumeric. Pivot tables are not yet supported.
Gnumeric's accuracy has helped it to establish a niche for statistical analysis and other scientific tasks.[5][6] For improving the accuracy of Gnumeric, the developers are cooperating with the R Project.
Gnumeric has a different interface for the creation and editing of graphs than other spreadsheet software. For editing a graph, Gnumeric displays a window where all the elements of the graph are listed. Other spreadsheet programs typically require the user to select the individual elements of the graph in the graph itself in order to edit them.
[edit] See also
- EditGrid – an online spreadsheet which uses Gnumeric as its back-end
- List of spreadsheets
- Comparison of spreadsheets
[edit] References
- ^ "Gnumeric 1.10.17 aka "TBD" is now available.". http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.17.shtml. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
- ^ Gnumeric authors. "The Gnumeric spreadsheet". http://www.gnu.org/software/gnumeric/gnumeric.html. Retrieved 2010-09-06. "Gnumeric has been coded mainly by Miguel de Icaza, with help from other intrepid hackers that have contributed code, bug fixes and documentation."
- ^ Gnumeric v1.10 manual, file formats
- ^ "Gnumeric XML File Format". The Gnumeric Manual, version 1.8. GNOME Documentation Project. November 2007. http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/doc/file-format-gnumeric.shtml. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ McCullough, B. D. (2004-06-04). "Fixing Statistical Errors in Spreadsheet Software: The Cases of Gnumeric and Excel". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports/gnumeric.pdf. Retrieved 31 January 2010. "The most recent versions given a full analysis in this report (available without charge) are Microsoft Excel XP and Gnumeric 1.1.2, and the author has more-limited data on then-new Excel 2003."
- ^ McCullough, B. D.; Wilson, Berry (15 June 2005). "On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2003". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 49 (4): 1244–1252. ISSN 0167-9473. http://arc.nucapt.northwestern.edu/~karnesky/sdarticle.pdf. Retrieved 31 January 2010. "In this journal article, after a more complete analysis of Excel 2003, McCullough concludes that Excel 2003 is an improvement over previous versions, but not enough has been done that its use for statistical purposes can be recommended"
[edit] External links
- Official website
- GNOMEDesktop.org: Gnumeric news aggregator
- Gnumeric XML File Format
- DesktopLinux.com interviews Gnumeric project leader Jody Goldberg
- Open Mag interviews Jody Goldberg on Gnumeric
- Linux Productivity Magazine: A full issue on Gnumeric
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