Excel is not a database, and the Excel ODBC driver is extremely limited. Put
your data in a CSV file or a SQL database (even a Jet database is a step up from
Excel).
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/odbc_excel.html
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Andrew Roberts <andrew at thinkingbone.org> wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Is there a parameter somewhere in RODBC that enables more columns to be
>
>retrieved from an Excel worksheet?
>
># This next bit uses an undocumented call in RODBC
>z <- odbcConnectExcel("./BBaselinePtQaires_apr2011.xls")
>BQ <- sqlFetch(z, "BBaselinePtQaires")
>
>Gives me:
>
>z RODBC[1]
>
>And
>
>BQ 134 obs. of 59 variables
>
>I have all the rows in the worksheet but only the first 59 out of a
>total of 70 columns. I?m in RStudio 0.95.263 using RODBC 1.3-3 and R
>version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25).
>
>I'm puzzled - the worksheet seems ok. If the worst comes to the worst I
>
>will have to split the worksheet and cbind to put it back together but
>that seems inelegant. The worksheet contains 134 rows, 70 columns and
>is
>in a spreadsheet that weighs in at 154 KB in total.
>
>Can you help unbaffle me?
>
>Andrew
>
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