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Published inApr 2024
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Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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Executing sample VBA with RDCOMClient

For this execution, the first thing we will need is a new workbook. Let’s call it mult_by_rand_ch3.

On Sheet1, we can create two columns, one called Record and the other called Value. These columns will simply be the numbers 1 through 10. When that is done, we will need to go ahead and create a simple VBA script to execute from the RDCOMClient library.

We are going to write a macro that will take the Value column and then multiply the number by a random number using the RAND() function.

Let’s go over the steps to make the macro and describe how it works. First, take a look at the following VBA code:

Sub MultiplyByRandom()
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim cell As Range
    ' Set the range to the desired range on Sheet1
    Set rng = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B2:B11")
    ' Loop through each cell in...
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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804610695

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Steven Sanderson

Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun

David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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