Re: [R] reading Excel file

2009-06-16 Thread Hans-Peter Suter
> I was using older version of R (installed early). I install new version of R > (R.2.9.0) but i could not find package "xlsReadWrite" to read Excel file. As others have pointed out (thanks) you can find it here: http://treetron.googlepages.com/. It runs fine in 2.9.0. > Is there any alternative

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2009-06-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows On 6/15/09, ram basnet wrote: > Dear all, > > I was using older version of R (installed early). I install new version of R > (R.2.9.0) but i could not find package "xlsReadWrite" to read Excel file. Is > there any alte

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2009-06-15 Thread David Scott
Talita Perciano wrote: Hi, The xlsReadWrite package is at the R site in the archive packages in CRAN (http://cran-r.c3sl.ufpr.br/src/contrib/Archive/xlsReadWrite/). You should also take a look at the package RExcelInstaller. Talita I am not sure if there are any updates of the package since i

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2009-06-15 Thread Talita Perciano
Hi, The xlsReadWrite package is at the R site in the archive packages in CRAN (http://cran-r.c3sl.ufpr.br/src/contrib/Archive/xlsReadWrite/). You should also take a look at the package RExcelInstaller. Talita Em Seg, 2009-06-15 às 15:28 -0700, ram basnet escreveu: > Dear all, > > I was using ol

[R] reading Excel file

2009-06-15 Thread ram basnet
Dear all,   I was using older version of R (installed early). I install new version of R (R.2.9.0) but i could not find package "xlsReadWrite" to read Excel file. Is there any alternatives to read Excel file ? I hope it should be. I need help although it is minor querry. Thanks in advance.   Sinc

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-26 Thread Hans-Peter
yet another possibility... if you look at 'help(package=xlsReadWrite)' you'll find a function 'dateTimeToStr' by which you can convert your date-numbers from column 3 into a string. Something along (untested): myRead <- function( fn ) { dat <- read.xls( file = fn, dateTimeAs = "numeric" ) dat

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-26 Thread jim holtman
essage- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:43 PM > To: Utkarsh Singhal > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] reading Excel file > > > > If d is the number of days since the Epoch then > > > > now <

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-25 Thread Utkarsh Singhal
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] reading Excel file If d is the number of days since the Epoch then now <- Sys.Date() now - julian(now) + d will give you a "Date" class variable. There is some info on dates in R News 4/1. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Utkarsh Singhal <

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-25 Thread Andrej Blejec
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Utkarsh Singhal > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] reading Excel file > > Hi R, > > > > I have an excel file in which the third column

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-25 Thread stephen sefick
why can't you know the number of columns if it is an excel file? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Earl F. Glynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Utkarsh Singhal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi R, > > > I have an excel file in which the third column is "date"

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-25 Thread Earl F. Glynn
"Utkarsh Singhal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi R, > I have an excel file in which the third column is "date" and others are > "character" and "numeric". > > If I use this to read the file in R: x = read.xls("D:\\file.xls") > > The problem is that my date colu

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You can convert the days to Date class after reading it in. See R News 4/1. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Utkarsh Singhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi R, > > > > I have an excel file in which the third column is "date" and others are > "character" and "numeric". > > Number of columns are 12

Re: [R] reading Excel file

2008-03-25 Thread Hans-Peter
> > But what can I do in case I don't know the number of columns in my > file?? > I mean is there any way I can specify the colClass of only third column > and for other columns it can take the default classes?? Not supported, sorry (I put it on the list). x = read.xls( "D:\\file.xls", colClass

[R] reading Excel file

2008-03-25 Thread Utkarsh Singhal
Hi R, I have an excel file in which the third column is "date" and others are "character" and "numeric". Number of columns are 12 If I use this to read the file in R: x = read.xls("D:\\file.xls") The problem is that my date column is read in julian dates. So I am using: