Re: [R] How to read this data correctly

2014-01-25 Thread jim holtman
Try XLConnect. It seems to read the data in just fine. Did have to create a named region, otherwise it would just read in the area that had data. require(XLConnect) wb - loadWorkbook(C:\\Users\\Owner\\Downloads\\Book1 (1).xlsx) x - readWorksheet(wb, 1, header = FALSE) # without region; only

[R] How to read this data correctly

2014-01-24 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hi again, I need to read below xlsx file correctly (available here: http://snk.to/f-ch3exae5), and used following code (say, file is saved in F: drive) library(gdata) read.xls(f:/Book1.xlsx, 1, header = F) V1 1 -0.419547704894512 2 -[$Â¥-411]0.42 However please notice

Re: [R] How to read this data correctly

2014-01-24 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Cell F7 has a formula, =F4, and when I open the file in excel, I get -¥0.42, which shouldn't read properly in R. The problem seems to be in the file, not in read.xls. Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 24-01-2014 19:22, Christofer Bogaso escreveu: Hi again, I need to read below xlsx

Re: [R] How to read this data correctly

2014-01-24 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hi Rui, Thanks for your reply. However why you said, 'shouldn't read properly in R'? Basically I was looking for some way so that I would get -0.419547704894512 value in R against cell F4 F7. Because F7 is linked with F4. Ofcourse I can open Excel file then format that cell accordingly.

Re: [R] How to read this data correctly

2014-01-24 Thread Rui Barradas
^Hello, Inline. Em 24-01-2014 20:49, Christofer Bogaso escreveu: Hi Rui, Thanks for your reply. However why you said, 'shouldn't read properly in R'? I've said this because I don't know if a cell with a formula can be read in R. Also, because when I've opened it in excel, there was some

Re: [R] How to read this data correctly

2014-01-24 Thread arun
Hi, I am getting this: read.xls(Book1.xlsx,1,header=F) #  V1 #1 -0.4195477 #2 -0.4195477 sessionInfo() R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) attached base packages: [1] stats graphics  grDevices utils datasets  methods   base other

Re: [R] How to read this data correctly

2014-01-24 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi, I don't know that it is a problem in R reading the file per se. It is more of an issue, as far as I can see, that read.xls() is not written to deal with some aspects of cell formatting of certain types. In this case, the cell is formatted using a financial format with Japanese Yen. I did