Alberto Monteiro wrote: > I found a curious bug in read.xls. I don't know if it's reproducible. > > It's like this: suppose I do a read.xls in a spreadsheet. A column > begins with a number. Then, any strings below it will be rendered as NA. > If the column begins with a string, then it will be rendered correctly. > > Alberto Monteiro > > Notice that this is in a contributed package (at least two of which have a read.xls...), not R as such.
It would seem to be by design: The first value determines the variable type. You should be able to override this logic by using the colClasses argument. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ 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.
