Re: [R] Reading Excel Formulas as values

2012-05-16 Thread David L Carlson
2 3:11 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Reading Excel Formulas as values > > When I read excel files using the read.xlsx() command any cells that > have > formulas in them come up as NA. > > Is there a way to read just the numeric value of the cell without using > th

Re: [R] Reading Excel Formulas as values

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Alspach
-project.org Subject: [R] Reading Excel Formulas as values When I read excel files using the read.xlsx() command any cells that have formulas in them come up as NA. Is there a way to read just the numeric value of the cell without using the "paste value" command in Excel? I need to read in h

Re: [R] Reading Excel Formulas as values

2012-05-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Mike Smith wrote: > When I read excel files using the read.xlsx() command any cells that have > formulas in them come up as NA. > > Is there a way to read just the numeric value of the cell without using the > "paste value" command in Excel?  I need to read in hund

Re: [R] Reading Excel Formulas as values

2012-05-15 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
It sounds like this might actually make more sense to do in VBA and not R (gasp!) if your only goal is to have excel in --> excel out. [UNTESTED] As far as a workaround if you really want to do this in R, perhaps you can specify that you want character vectors everywhere and your connection client

[R] Reading Excel Formulas as values

2012-05-15 Thread Mike Smith
When I read excel files using the read.xlsx() command any cells that have formulas in them come up as NA. Is there a way to read just the numeric value of the cell without using the "paste value" command in Excel? I need to read in hundreds of Excel spreadsheets and compile them into one large su