Hi Stephen, You don't say what "staging" is - do you mean for data entry or loading a data file for review, or ... ?
In general, I keep away from Excel for data transfer purposes. It tends to make "intelligent" decisions on data types leading to strange & bizarre results (unless you explicitly type each column - which most users don't do). Integers are interpreted as dates, high order zeros are stripped off of ZIP codes, and the like. HTH, Jim Porzak TGN.com San Francisco, CA http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimporzak useR Group SF: http://ia.meetup.com/67/ On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering if there is a better alternative than Excel for data > storage that does not require database knowledge (I will eventually > have to learn this, but it is not on my immediate todo list). I need > something that is not limited to 256 columns... I don't need any of > the built in functions in excel just a spreadsheet like program with > cells that hold data in a data.frame format for a staging area before > I get it into R. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is not > a direct r question, but all of you folks have more experience than I > do and I am having a time finding what I need with google. > thanks in advance > > -- > Stephen Sefick > Research Scientist > Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.