R help - Aug 2012 - need help on stkcd reading

Hi, all:
      This is the first time I use mail-list for help and I'm a student
from Chinese. So forgive my poor English skill.
      Here is the question: I have an excel file contains some stkcd
information. The stkcd is a string fill with numbers, e.g "000002".
When i
use sqlFetch function from RODBC package. It will automatically read stkcd
as a number, e.g 2 which is truly confusing me. Any suggestions please.
Best!

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On 01/08/2012 10:11, delvin008 delta wrote:
> Hi, all:
>        This is the first time I use mail-list for help and I'm a
student
> from Chinese. So forgive my poor English skill.
>        Here is the question: I have an excel file contains some stkcd
> information. The stkcd is a string fill with numbers, e.g
"000002". When i
> use sqlFetch function from RODBC package. It will automatically read stkcd
> as a number, e.g 2 which is truly confusing me. Any suggestions please.
No, it will not. It (like read.table) does so because you asked it to. 
See the 'R Data Import/Export Manual' (which has lots of good advice and
should be basic reading for people importing data into R) and the help 
for sqlFetch (especially the as.is argument).



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