Rcmdr Bug?

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Dear Knut,

This is really more a limitation than a bug. Like most of the dialogs in the Rcmdr, the dialog to read Excel files uses existing facilities in R and R packages. I'll see whether it's possible to add an option to read a data set without variable names. The obvious workaround is to add a row of variable names to the spreadsheet.

Best,
 John

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John Fox
Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/

On Fri, 17 May 2013 07:40:51 +0200

may be it is a bug:
if a excel file is not containing headlines the first data row will not be imported

Knut

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Am 17.05.2013 13:36, schrieb John Fox:

Dear Knut,

This is really more a limitation than a bug. Like most of the dialogs in the Rcmdr, the dialog to read Excel files uses existing facilities in R and R packages. I'll see whether it's possible to add an option to read a data set without variable names. The obvious workaround is to add a row of variable names to the spreadsheet.

dear John,
indeed I would never use an excel sheet without variable names ... but 
students do and then the statistics are wrong ....
As I mentioned in the other answer it would be fine to add a hint that 
the first row is used as variable name ... for the students ;-)

Knut