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read.table understands comment field and ignores text
Jack T. · Apr 22, 2010 · r-help

Oh man, totally missed that one! Thanks so much for the reminder. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-table-understands-comment-field-and-ignores-text-tp2021036p2021055.html Sent from the R help mailing list...

RODBC: forcing a special column to be read in as character
Jack T. · May 3, 2011 · r-help

I've had the same problem and ended up using the xlsReadWrite package. It takes more time to import a sheet but does have the colClasses command. Following your example: library(xlsReadWrite) read.xls("testtable", sheet = "sheet1", colClasses="character") should...

64 bit use of odbcConnectExcel
Jack T. · Oct 14, 2010 · r-help

Still doesn't work, any ideas? Error in sqlTables(channel1) : first argument is not an open RODBC channel In addition: Warning messages: 1: In odbcDriverConnect(con, tabQuote = c("[", "]"), ...) : [RODBC] ERROR: state IM002, code 0, message [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data...

read.table understands comment field and ignores text
Jack T. · Apr 22, 2010 · r-help

Hi I'm trying to import a large csv file without quotes around each field. This creates some problems when there are "#" characters in certain strings as R understands its comment field and ignores the rest of the line. Here...

densityplot on date objects
Jack T. · Jul 23, 2010 · r-help

Hi, I'm looking for a way to use densityplot in the lattice package on Date data or manipulate the labels for tick marks. Here's an example: #generate psuedo dates dat.Date <- as.Date('2009-12-31')+as.integer...

64 bit use of odbcConnectExcel
Jack T. · Jul 22, 2010 · r-help

Hi All, I'm using R 2.11.1 on 64 bit windows XP. The little function I wrote below I use often to import the first 1001 lines in an excel sheet to R. This works fine on the...

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