sorry excel 2003 with no immediate update in the future. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You didn't say which version of Excel you are using but Excel 2007 > allows 16,384 columns. > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:27 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am wondering if there is a better alternative than Excel for data >> storage that does not require database knowledge (I will eventually >> have to learn this, but it is not on my immediate todo list). I need >> something that is not limited to 256 columns... I don't need any of >> the built in functions in excel just a spreadsheet like program with >> cells that hold data in a data.frame format for a staging area before >> I get it into R. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is not >> a direct r question, but all of you folks have more experience than I >> do and I am having a time finding what I need with google. >> thanks in advance >> >> -- >> Stephen Sefick >> Research Scientist >> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy >> >> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are >> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and >> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the >> annoying little problems of being mammals. >> >> -K. Mullis >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >
-- Stephen Sefick Research Scientist Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.