similar to: RODBC: forcing a special column to be read in as character

Dear R-users, I am working with R version 2.10.1 and package RODBC Version: 1.3-2 under windows. Say I have a table "testtable" (in an Access data base) with 3 columns and 1 row that looks like this: X Y Z 0012345 42 42,1 The columns are of these types: X - character, Y - Long Integer, Z - Decimal. I use RODBC to get these data into R: > library(RODBC) >

Hi, i'm trying to read some data from excel files but it seems that neither xlsReadWrite nor sqlFetch (RODBC) doesn't like the format (Excel 5.0). When i open the file in Excel and save it in a new format Excel 97 -2003 everything works fine. Is it possible to use ODBC connection to open old format files, or i guess i will have to open and save every file in Excel in new format, which

I'd like to be able to read multiple sheets from an excel workbook and use the sheet name to name the resulting dataframe using RODBC. at the moment i've figured out how to do it the long way (see below) but feel sure that there is a speedier & possibly automatic way to do it in R. i've tried to run a loop using sqlTables but it seemed to break the connection. unless i've

Dear r-helpers! I have trouble reading data from an Oracle data base using RODBC Version 1.0-3, R Version 1.7.1, Windows XP, Oracle8 ODBC Driver Version 8.1.6.4.0: > library(RODBC) > channel <- odbcConnect(dsn="PAV32", case="oracle", believeNRows=FALSE) > # ok, this was succesful > x <- sqlTables(channel) > x[37, ] TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM TABLE_NAME

I have some questions about the RODBC package. library(RODBC) # required for those who want to repeat these lines 1st, I noticed that the following sequence does not work: channel <- odbcConnextExcel("test.xls") tables <- sqlTables(channel) name1 <- tables[1, "TABLE_NAME"] # this should be the name plan1 <- sqlFetch(channel, name1) # bang!

Hola, @javier, me gustaría no tener que hacer nada de forma manual, ni por fuera de r, rstudio. Es decir, el típico comando de linux que me convierta de xls a csv prefiero no usarlo. Me gustaría hacerlo todo desde R. @jorge -> Con RODBC me salta -> Error: could not find function "odbcConnectExcel" Lo que creo que es inevitable en Ubuntu

I have been trying to read some data from an Excel workbook without success. The workbook is in .xls format and has multiple sheets, one with the sheet name Data, which is the sheet I wish to read from. One complication is that the header row of this sheet is comprised of dropdown boxes. I tried what I normally would do plus some variations. Here is the output. > require(RODBC) >

Hello, I have some problems with RODBC and Excel in Win98 I am using R 1.6.2 and just upgraded RODBC to the last version on CRAN. I have an Excel file with columns Number, Name, Sex, Age, FEV1 on Sheet 1 and Number, Age, FEV1, Name, Sex on Sheet 2. Now I open the channel to the file > chan1 <- odbcConnectExcel("c:/testOdbc.xls") > tables(chan1) and the list appears with the 2

Hola, Pensé que esto iba a ser trivial en R, pero me estoy encontrado muchos con mi problema en internet, y que las soluciones ofrecidas no terminan de funcionar. Estoy intentando leer un fichero .xls en ubuntu con los siguientes paquetes y nada: require(RODBC) conn = odbcConnectExcel("madrid.xls") # open a connection to the Excel file sqlTables(conn)$TABLE_NAME # show all sheets df =

Gracias Jorge por contestar tan rápido. Con gdata hago eso del path, y directamente con el fichero, lo vi en una web, y he intentado todas las opcioens que he visto. En vez de install.packages('rJava', type = 'source') he hecho install.packages('rJava') Ahora probaré, y lo mismo con scan y readLines. He visto en stackoverflow que mi problema puede ser actualizar java,

offline? te lo envío a tu email, pq no creo que a toda la lista sea buena idea. El 15 de agosto de 2014, 9:47, Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanvelez en gmail.com> escribió: > De nada, Miguel. Es posible que me envies el archivo offline? --JIV > > > > 2014-08-15 17:45 GMT+10:00 Miguel Fiandor Gutiérrez < > miguel.fiandor.gutierrez en gmail.com>: > > Gracias

I have several hundred Excel 2007 data files in a folder. I would like to read every file in a single given folder using a loop. I have searched the FAQ, the forum archives here, other or older R boards and the R Import / Export documentation, and have asked some very knowledgeable R users without learning of a solution. I hope someone here can help. I understand that the most common

Hello, I have an excel file that I load through RODBC. Some of my columns are blank. They are equity time series and the stocks did not exist at the earlier dates. My problem is that the whole column becomes <NA> even though there are numbers at later dates. Here's my excel file http://www.tradebit.com/download.php/35699 <http://www.tradebit.com/download.php/35699> And

Dear R experts, I am trying to import some data from some Excle files into R. My Excle file contains about 50 sheets. One solution I can think about is to convert my Excle file into csv file first and then load data into R using 'read.csv'. But it seems to me that 'read.csv' only supports reading one sheet (or 'one file') each time, so that seems I have to create 50 csv

The first column in my Excel sheet has mostly numbers but I need to treat it as character data: > library(RODBC) > channel <- odbcConnectExcel("U:/efg/lab/R/Plasmid/construct list.xls") > plasmid <- sqlFetch(channel,"Sheet1", as.is=TRUE) > odbcClose(channel) > names(plasmid) [1] "Plasmid Number" "Plasmid"

All: I am using RSqlite and want to be able to update individual values in a record, such as with this simple example: library(RSQLite) drv<-dbDriver("SQLite") con<-dbConnect(drv,"test.db") my.data<-data.frame(countries=c("US","UK","Canada","Australia","NewZealand"),vals=c(52,36,74,10,98))

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

I'm using the RODBC library to read in an Excel file using the odbcConnectExcel function. I can read the Excel data prefectly, however all my character variables get converted to factors when using my.data <- as.data.frame(sqlFetch(channel, "Sheet1")) I've tried using my.data <- as.data.frame(I(sqlFetch(channel, "Sheet1"))) but this creates just

hello all i have a quick question. i have been using the RODBC library (trying to read Excel data into R but i am doing this by using Rexcel. this is probably not the correct forum - sorry for this). my code is shown below: Sub A() 'start the connection to R Call RInterface.StartRServer RInterface.RRun "library(RODBC)" RInterface.RRun "A =

Dear R users, I've learned today about RODBC package in order to import xls file to dataframes and export the dataframes to xls files. However I have some problems. Please excuse me if these are basic but as I said, I've just begun with this package. Also this email is quite long, but everything is related, so I don't think it would be better to split it. Moreover, there's a