Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-12-03 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 02.12.2013 21:28, schrieb David Winsemius: In fact you can set that globally with: ?options options()$OutDec # my setting [1] . Oh sorry I thought you mentioned to set excel globally to dot. no change when setting it to dot. I seems that XLConnect is not able to deal with NA in Excel,

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-12-03 Thread Peter Keller
I can't tell since you didn't post any code, so forgive me if you've tried this. XLConnect has a colTypes parameter so you could try specifying the relevant columns to be read in as character, set forceConversion = TRUE, and then use as.numeric. Something like this: as.numeric(sub(,, .,

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Studer
Hi, XLConnect can very well deal with missing values. By default, only blank cells (cells not containing any values) will be treated as missing values. Cells containing the text NA are not automatically treated as missing values as NA is a valid non-missing text string. If you want to treat the

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-12-02 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 29.11.2013 20:39, schrieb David Winsemius: Thats impossible, we are used to hit the comma I don't know what that means. it is common here, that the decimal sign is commy All computer in the cip-pools are using the comma ( an I think 99.9% of all other computers here) Can you imagine what

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-12-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 2, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: Am 29.11.2013 20:39, schrieb David Winsemius: Thats impossible, we are used to hit the comma I don't know what that means. it is common here, that the decimal sign is commy Believe me, I _do_ understand that in Europe it is common to use a

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-11-29 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 25.11.2013 13:06, schrieb Knut Krueger: how can I read exel files where the decimal sign is comma instead dot. I get the data as ascii and when converting 3,5 with as.numeric the 3,5 will be converted to NA I think here is a major bug because no warning is genereated. It is impossible

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-11-29 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 29, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: Am 25.11.2013 13:06, schrieb Knut Krueger: how can I read exel files where the decimal sign is comma instead dot. I get the data as ascii and when converting 3,5 with as.numeric the 3,5 will be converted to NA I think here is a major

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-11-29 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 29.11.2013 18:31, schrieb David Winsemius: On Nov 29, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: Am 25.11.2013 13:06, schrieb Knut Krueger: how can I read exel files where the decimal sign is comma instead dot. I get the data as ascii and when converting 3,5 with as.numeric the 3,5 will be

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-11-29 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Please understand that this is a contributed package, and definitive assistance can only be provided by the package author. Type maintainer(XLConnect) for contact information, and read the package info at cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XLConnect/index.html. R-devel is unlikely to be a more

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-11-29 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 29, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: Am 29.11.2013 18:31, schrieb David Winsemius: On Nov 29, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: Am 25.11.2013 13:06, schrieb Knut Krueger: how can I read exel files where the decimal sign is comma instead dot. I get the data as ascii and

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-11-25 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi Either change comma to dot in Excel (but sometimes Excel is rather reluctant to accept such changes). Or change commaa to dot in R which probably can be easily done by gsub command Or read data with option dec=,. I do not know XLConnect but in read.table it is optional parameter and maybe

Re: [R] XLConnect readWorksheet comma decimal sign

2013-11-25 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 25.11.2013 11:29, schrieb PIKAL Petr: Hi Either change comma to dot in Excel (but sometimes Excel is rather reluctant to accept such changes). Or change commaa to dot in R which probably can be easily done by gsub command Or read data with option dec=,. I do not know XLConnect but in