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I have 120 small Excel sheets to read and I am using
library(xlsReadWrite): one example below.
I had hoped to read sheets by looping over a list of numbers in their
name (eg Book1.xls, Book2.xls, etc).
I thought I had seen examples which used eval-parse-paste in this way.
However, I have not been able to get it to work..
1. is this a feasible approach?
2. if not advice would be welcome.
3. Equally, advice about a better approach would also be v. welcome.
I haven't included the data because my failed attempt is
data-independent (and probably more basic).
Michael Anyadike-Danes
############# show that read.xls works
> test <- read.xls("Book1.xls",sheet=1,from=4,colClasses="numeric")
> str(test)
'data.frame': 23 obs. of 13 variables:
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 117.19 NaN NA 1.43 2.26 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 8.42 NaN NA 0.08 0.11 0.01 0.11 1.59 0.16
0.04 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 20 NaN NA 0.2 0.3 0.02 0.32 4.39 0.41
0.11 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 12.36 NaN NA 0.14 0.27 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 7.59 NaN NA 0.11 0.18 0.01 0.14 1.46 0.23
0.06 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 10.31 NaN NA 0.12 0.23 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 7.55 NaN NA 0.08 0.2 0.01 0.11 1.6 0.23
0.05 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 10.57 NaN NA 0.19 0.21 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 9.36 NaN NA 0.13 0.26 0.02 0.13 2.12 0.27
0.07 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 8.21 NaN NA 0.1 0.19 0.01 0.1 1.9 0.23
0.06 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 9.04 NaN NA 0.13 0.11 0.01 0.17 1.54 0.17
0.05 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 13.42 NaN NA 0.14 0.19 ...
$ Off.Flows..Thousands.: num 0.37 NaN NA NaN 0.01 NaN 0.01 0.05 0.02
NaN ...
############### simple minded attempt substituting eval-parse-paste
> nam <- 1
> test <-
eval(parse(paste('read.xls("Book',nam,'.xls",sheet=1,from=4,colClasses="
numeric")',sep='')))
Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "r") :
cannot open file
'read.xls("Book1.xls",sheet=1,from=4,colClasses="numeric")', reason
'Invalid argument'
############### stripping off eval, looking for clues
>
parse(paste('read.xls("Book',nam,'.xls",sheet=1,from=4,colClasses="numer
ic")',sep=''))
Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "r") :
cannot open file
'read.xls("Book1.xls",sheet=1,from=4,colClasses="numeric")', reason
'Invalid argument'
############### stripping off parse, still looking for clues
>
paste('read.xls("Book',nam,'.xls",sheet=1,from=4,colClasses="numeric")',
sep='')
[1] "read.xls(\"Book1.xls\",sheet=1,from=4,colClasses=\"numeric\")"
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