How about simply a text editor, typing in your data, separated by commas or tabs or spaces? One row for each case/subject/observation? R can read that in easily.
A good, open-source, free data entry program is EpiData. www.epidata.dk. It is simple to use but probably more than you need for task. --Chris Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY 13790 cryanatbinghamtondotedu PGP public keys available at http://home.stny.rr.com/ryancw/ "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." [Antoine de St. Exupery] stephen sefick 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 > ______________________________________________ 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.