> 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 -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
