Problem with ODBC connection

Any response please? Was my question not clear to the list? Please let me
know.

Thanks and regards,

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with ODBC connection
To: r-help <r-help at r-project.org>


Hello All,

My previous post remains unanswered probably because the attachment was not
working properly.

So I am re-posting it again.

My problem is in reading an Excel-2003 file through ODBC connection using
RODBC package. Let say I have this Excel file:

http://www.2shared.com/document/HS3JeFyW/MyFile.html


I saved it in my "F:" drive and tried reading the contents using RODBC
connection:

library(RODBC)
MyData <- sqlFetch(odbcConnectExcel("f:/MyFile.xls"), "aaaa")
head(MyData, 30)

However it looks that the second column (with header 's') is not read
properly.

Can somebody here explain this bizarre thing? Did I do something wrong in
reading that?

Really appreciate if someone could point out anything what might go wrong.

Thanks and regards,


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Christofer Bogaso <
bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello again,

I am having problem with ODBC connection using the RODBC package.

I am basically trying to read the attached Excel-2003 file using RODBC
package. Here is my code:

head(sqlFetch(odbcConnectExcel("d:/ssss1.xls"), "aaaa"), 30);

odbcCloseAll()
   Criteria  s  d fd  f                        fd1
    f1                        fd2    f2 fd3 f3 F12 F13 F14 F15 F16 F17
F18 F19 F20
1         a NA NA NA NA 0.000000000000000000000000
0.000000000000000027755576 -0.00000000000000040332321    NA  NA NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
2         s NA  0 NA NA 0.000000000000000000000000
0.000000000000000000000000  0.00000000000000000000000    NA  NA NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
3         d NA  0 NA NA 0.000000000000000001734723
0.000000000000000006938894  0.00000000000000002775558  5.00  NA NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
4         f NA NA NA NA                         NA
    NA                         NA -4.25  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
5         f NA  0 NA NA 0.000000000000000000000000
0.000000000000000000000000  0.00000000000000000000000 -1.53  NA NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
6         f NA NA NA NA                         NA
    NA  0.00000000000000000000000  0.00  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
7         f NA NA NA NA                         NA
    NA  0.00000000000000000000000    NA  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
8         f NA  0 NA NA                         NA
    NA                         NA    NA  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
9         f NA  0 NA NA                         NA
    NA                         NA    NA  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
10        f NA NA NA NA                         NA
    NA                         NA    NA  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
11        f NA NA NA NA                         NA
    NA                         NA    NA  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
12        f NA NA NA NA                         NA
    NA                         NA    NA  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA
13        f NA NA NA NA                         NA
    NA                         NA    NA  NA NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
 NA  NA  NA

Here you see the data in second column could not read at all.

Can somebody point me if I did something wrong?

Thanks and regards,

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