[Bioc-devel] RFC: read.AnnotatedDataFrame
Dear Robert,
I would prefer not to drop the widget option, even if all we do is to say there is not one - please let us know that you want one. We should avoid changing signatures unless it is really necessary - and this seems to be aesthetic not semantic.
OK!
If you really want to help the Excel folks out, then you would use COM/DCOM to pull it directly from Excel, rather than force them to save as a file etc. I think it is quite straightforward and there have been several examples on the mailing list recently.
Good point. I think both will be useful - reading from tab-delimited files (somewhat more portable), and via RODBC (which is very nice but a bit tedious to install on Linux, at least last time I did it). Do people have any strong objections to changing defaults to: sep="\t", header=TRUE, quote ="", as.is=TRUE Best wishes Wolfgang ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wolfgang Huber EBI/EMBL Cambridge UK http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber