Hi Anna, have a look at ?write.csv2, which deals with the Excel conventions for CSV in German locale.
cheers Am 06.10.2011 17:39, schrieb Anna Lee: > Hello everyone! > > I work with a german excell version which uses commas instead of > points for seperating decimal places. R work with points so in order > to be able to save my excell tables without changing the commas to > points, whenever I load a table I type in: read.table(..., dec = ",") > only R puts the points into the wron places. For excample excell has a > cell with the number: 0,09 so what R does, it writes the number as 0.9 > which is wrong and makes my calculations become useless. > > Does anyone know this problem? Maby I made a mistake somewhere? > > I would be glad about your answers! > > Cheers, Anna > -- Eik Vettorazzi Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Epidemiologie Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Martinistr. 52 20246 Hamburg T ++49/40/7410-58243 F ++49/40/7410-57790 -- Pflichtangaben gemäß Gesetz über elektronische Handelsregister und Genossenschaftsregister sowie das Unternehmensregister (EHUG): Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf; Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts; Gerichtsstand: Hamburg Vorstandsmitglieder: Prof. Dr. Guido Sauter (Vertreter des Vorsitzenden), Dr. Alexander Kirstein, Joachim Prölß, Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Koch-Gromus ______________________________________________ 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.