Hello,
I've been using: tmp.df = read.xls(filename, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) to
read in my files. Even though I get the There were 50 or more warnings thing,
for the most part most of the data is read in correctly. However, there are a
few select rows where there are values but they are
2009/3/15 David Scott d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mathew, Abraham T wrote:
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Just checking on CRAN xlsReadWrite is not currently available. There is an
archived version available however.
Thanks for mentioning.
The reason is that CRAN is strict(er) now with binary
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mathew, Abraham T wrote:
I'm an R newbie and had a question about the read.xls function. I've heard that
this is often not a reliable function to use for importing data. However, I
have created numerous xls files which contain information about voter turnout
and
To turn the function avaliable you have to load the library first, to
do so:
library(xlsReadWrite)
Then you use your command read.xls.
I'm suposing that you already had installed the xlsReadWrite package.
A better alternative to this package is RODBC, which also read excel
2007 files. Take
There are two read.xls functions: one is in gdata and one is in
xlsReadWrite packages and neither is unreliable. You've simply
not loaded the package. There is more info here and interfacing
to Excel:
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows
You should read the
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