Yep, there was a blank in the first row that I hadn't noticed. 

Thanks again. 

On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 10:31:13 AM UTC-4, David Anthoff wrote:
>
> I think that means you are reading an area where there is an empty cell in 
> the first row of the range. The first row is used for the column names of 
> the DataFrame, and so it can’t have an empty cell in it.
>
>  
>
> Two possible ways out:
>
> -           Make sure there are no empty cells in the first row of the 
> range you are reading.
>
> -           Change the range you read to A2:C1885, and then manually 
> provide the names for the columns. Either by passing an array of symbols as 
> colnames, or by passing header=false (in which case you will get auto 
> created colnames)
>
>  
>
> Best,
>
> David
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* julia...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto:
> julia...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *Brandon Booth
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2015 10:12 AM
> *To:* julia...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>
> *Subject:* Re: [julia-users] Convert DataArray to DataFrame
>
>  
>
> So I tried it this morning and it works for several sheets, but not for 
> one. 
>
> When I run this:
>
> f = openxl("Data.XLSX")
>
> test = readxl(DataFrame, f, "Data!A1:C1885")
>
>
> I get the following error:
>
> NAException("Cannot convert DataArray with NA's to desired type")
>
> while loading In[3], in expression starting on line 2
>
>  
>
>  in convert at C:\.julia\v0.3\DataArrays\src\dataarray.jl:561
>
>  in readxl_internal at C:\.julia\v0.3\ExcelReaders\src\ExcelReaders.jl:214
>
>  in readxl at C:\.julia\v0.3\ExcelReaders\src\ExcelReaders.jl:204
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>  
>
> Thanks.
>
>  
>
> Brandon
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 7:28:59 PM UTC-4, David Anthoff wrote:
>
> Have you tried
>
>  
>
> df = readxl(DataFrame, "Filename.xlsx", "Sheet1!A1:C4")
>
>  
>
> That would return a DataFrame. Note that there is no readxlsheet that 
> reads into a DataFrame (yet).
>
>  
>
> The eventual API design I had in mind is that one can pass as a first 
> argument the return type one desires. Right now the only option is 
> DataFrame, otherwise it defaults to a DataArray.
>
>  
>
> Cheers,
>
> David 
>
>  
>
> *From:* julia...@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia...@googlegroups.com] *On 
> Behalf Of *Brandon Booth
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 19, 2015 7:22 PM
> *To:* julia...@googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* [julia-users] Convert DataArray to DataFrame
>
>  
>
> I feel like this should be simple to do, but I can't seem to do it. I'm 
> using ExcelReaders and it imports as a DataArray whereas I'd like to have 
> the data as a DataFrame. I didn't see anything in the approximately 375 
> pages of methods for convert.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brandon
>
>

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