Message-ID: <AANLkTi=w0YEsj60R+3+CDt=zykcncSX8CTmwNYe5VPi7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-01-11T15:29:05Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: Help with Data Transformation
In-Reply-To: <DB38DC457CF19544AD6BC484B60263AB98BE86@Exch-MB-02-A.ITSIWC1.com>
> The data is initially extracted from an SQL database into Excel, then saved as a tab-delimited text file for use in R.
You might also want to look at the SQL packages for R so you can skip
this manual step. I'd recommend starting with
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html#Relational-databases
Hadley
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