[R] Problem in reading Excel spreadsheets

Ivan Calandra
Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:05:40 -0000

Hi,

I don't know much about RODBC, but the package xlsReadWrite works pretty
well for me for reading and writing xls files (and it doesn't need Perl
or anything else to run).

Ivan

Le 12/1/2010 08:56, Stephen Liu a ?crit :
> Hi folks,
>
> Win 7 64bit
> R 2.12.0 32bit
>
> Problem in reading Excel spreadsheets
>
> (the text file, research_databaseI.xls, was download on Internet)
>
>
>> data=odbcConnectExcel(file.choose())
>> sqlTables(data)
>                                                   TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM
> 1  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 2  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 3  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 4  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 5  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 6  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 7  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 8  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 9  C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 10 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 11 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 12 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 13 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 14 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 15 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 16 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 17 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 18 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 19 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 20 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 21 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 22 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
> 23 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI<NA>
>                        TABLE_NAME   TABLE_TYPE REMARKS
> 1                           AGR$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 2                           BMC$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 3                         Dairy$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 4                           GDP$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 5                          HIES$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 6                         Manuf$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 7                        Prices$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 8                        Sheet1$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 9                           WPI$ SYSTEM TABLE<NA>
> 10             'Approved plans$'        TABLE<NA>
> 11                  'Emp stats$'        TABLE<NA>
> 12                   'Ex rates$'        TABLE<NA>
> 13            'hotel occ rates$'        TABLE<NA>
> 14               'Insurance co$'        TABLE<NA>
> 15             'Interest rates$'        TABLE<NA>
> 16                    'Motor V$'        TABLE<NA>
> 17           'Ostrich Projects$'        TABLE<NA>
> 18                   'Prop dev$'        TABLE<NA>
> 19                'tourism est$'        TABLE<NA>
> 20 'tourism est'$_FilterDatabase        TABLE<NA>
> 21              'Travel agents$'        TABLE<NA>
> 22               'Umempl stats$'        TABLE<NA>
> 23                     'US CPI$'        TABLE<NA>
>
>> mydata=sqlFetch(data, "AGR")
>> odbcClose(data)
>> mydata
> The printout doesn't look like the content of Excel spreadsheet.  Many
data
> disappear.
>
> I read ?RODBC and the pdf file started with
"RShowDoc("RODBC",
> package="RODBC").  I couldn't figure out the cause of
problem.
>
>
> Is "RODBC" not the way to read Excel spreadsheets on R?  TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
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