On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Christof Kluß wrote:
> Hi
>
> one col in my Excel file contains many numbers. But on line 3000 and
> some other lines are strings like "FG 1". "RODBS" seems to omit this
> lines. "gdata" works, but is much slower.
>
> Is this a bug of RODBC or do I apply it wrong?
>
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attr(,"class")
[1] "rcomdata"
>
PS: If you want to use ADO, it is worthwhile getting to knpw all the methods
applicable to the ResordSet object; it is very flexible.
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From: Enrico Schumann
To: Christof Kluß
Cc: r-h...@stat.math.e
You could prepare the data in Excel as text, and then coerce them to
numeric in R (and approriately code your "FG 1" strings).
Depending on how large your file is, you could create a new file, format
the cells as text, and then copy the data into this new file. Or change
cell entries to text
On 9 January 2012 10:46, Christof Kluß wrote:
> thank you very much, so it is a known problem with the Microsoft Excel
> ODBC drivers :(
As I was advised a few weeks ago, the best way for Excel to get into R
is to export the file as CSV and use read.csv, read.csv2, or
read.table. Perhaps this is
Hi Enrico,
thank you very much, so it is a known problem with the Microsoft Excel
ODBC drivers :(
"7 Excel Drivers
... There are at least two known problems with reading columns that do
not have a format set before data entry, and so start with format
`General'. First, the driver uses the fi rst
Hi Christof,
have a look at the manual of RODBC, and in particular the section on
Excel drivers.
RShowDoc("RODBC", package="RODBC")
Regards,
Enrico
Am 09.01.2012 19:02, schrieb Christof Kluß:
Hi
one col in my Excel file contains many numbers. But on line 3000 and
some other lines are str
Hi
one col in my Excel file contains many numbers. But on line 3000 and
some other lines are strings like "FG 1". "RODBS" seems to omit this
lines. "gdata" works, but is much slower.
Is this a bug of RODBC or do I apply it wrong?
Example with the same "file.xlsx"
library(RODBC); excel <- odbcC
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