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Hi list, Is there a R function I can use to extract the worksheet names from an Excel file?? If no, any other automatic ways (not using R) to do this? thanks! ...Tao

I am having difficulty with dependencies for the R rpm for Fedora Core 2. In attempting to load R-2.0.0.0.fdr.1.fc2.i386.rpm it fails the libtk8.4.so dependency even though I have this library loaded. The library is located in: /usr/local/lib. How might I tell R where to find this library? I am new to Linux and loading rpms so I am hoping there is a simple answer and that the problem is

hi, i am using the RODBC package to read excel files using odbcConnectExcel and susequently sqlFetch to read the contents of the file. the file that i use is just a matrix of numbers thats all. no headers and column names. what happens is that the sqlFetch is not reading my first row of numbers. i have tried different combinations of colnames and rownames logical values but that first row is not

Hello!!! I have been read a much about as read data from Excel File, but I haven?t found the necesary information to read the data. Now, I can create a channel : channel <- odbcConnectExcel("file.xls") but I don?t know as read the data?? I hope that you could help me. Thank you very much. -- View this message in context:

Hello all, I have a business user who generates monthly reports in MS Excel in a particular format. The data I need is present in different portions of this excel file. Is there a way to read different cells from a particular excel worksheet? i.e., cells b50:d100 in the Inputs worksheet. I am investigating odbcConnectExcel but did not yet see such capability. Appreciate your help. Jeevan

Hello, I would like to create an ascii text file that looks exactly like the Console output of a split() action. I have tried save, dput, dump, write.foreign and write to no avail. The resulting text files are a jumble of data that I would have to edit heavily in order to use it for my proposed purpose. How can I, short of copying and pasting the contents of the console (which will not work

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

Dear All, I would like to count or list the names of the existing worksheets within an .xls file. Any hints? Thaks, Gabor -- Pozsgai G?bor www.coleoptera.hu www.photogabor.com

R 2.0.0 patched under win2000. MS Office Excel 2003. ODBC Drivers? This may not come as a surprise -- sqlFetch() (and perhaps other ?) appear not to handle table/worksheet names with spaces in them in Excel tables. I was not able to find documentation that specifically mentioned this, although the Help pages vaguely hinted that there might be difficulty with Excel's "peculiar

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

Dear R-experts, It is a quite stupid question but please help me. I am very confuced. I am able to import normal txt ant mat-files to R but unable to import .xls-file I do not understand the online help. Can please anyone send me the corresponding command lines? The .xls-file is attached. In my file we use commas for the decimal format (example: 0,712), changes might be needed. Thanks, Corinna

channel <- odbcConnectExcel("nuova tabella terapia occupazionale mod.xls") > ## list the spreadsheets > sqlTables(channel) TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM TABLE_NAME 1 c:\\TABELLE DEFINITIVE\\nuova tabella terapia occupazionale mod <NA> 'emi tot 2006 OAI_60g TO FU1$' 2 c:\\TABELLE DEFINITIVE\\nuova

I?ve got an Excel workbook with about 30 worksheets. Each worksheet has 10000 rows of data over 30 columns. I?d like to read the data from each worksheet into a dataframe or matrix in R for processing. Normally, I use read.csv when interacting with Excel but I?d rather manipulate a multisheet workbook directly than set about splitting the original workbook and saving down each part as a csv.

Hello I know how read a file in excel format into a R data frame using the RODBC library, but I don't know how write a R data frame in excel format. I don't understand the instructions from RODBC user manual. To read an excel file I use. library(RODBC); conex<-odbcConnectExcel("fis_quim.xls"); sqlTables(conex); data<-sqlFetch(conex,"hoja1"); Suppose I

Dear R-experts, I have got an excel file as attached. I imported it successful with the commands: library(RODBC) channel <- odbcConnectExcel("data2.xls") tables <- sqlTables(channel) # list the names of the spreadsheets name1 <- tables[1, "TABLE_NAME"] # get the name of the 1st spreadsheet plan1 <- sqlQuery(channel, sprintf("select * from [%s]",

Dear all, I would like to import a range of cells (e.g. F10:K234) from an Excel worksheet to R. I have looked for documentation on RODBC and RDCOMClient but I was not able to find enough information to solve my problem and all the examples I have seen were dealing with an entire worksheet, not a range of cells. Thanks, Jean-Noel Jean-Noel Candau INRA - Unit? de Recherches Foresti?res

Hello sir: How can I read data file of EXCEL format from disk("d:\\data.XLS" for example)? I can only read data file of .txt format read.delim("d:\\data.txt",header=T,as.is=T),but only EXCEL format is available at present. Thanks a lot

I tried creating a .xlsx file using odbcConnectExcel2007 and adding a worksheet with sqlSave. This seems to work, I am even able to query the worksheet, but when I try opening the file in Excel I get the following message: "Excel cannot open the file 'test.xlx' because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file

Hi,   I am trying to import data directly from an excel spreadsheet using the RODBC package. I am getting the following error messages, wondering if anyone can help me with it?   > connection = odbcConnectExcel('D:\\R files\\TestData.xls') > tables = sqlTables(connection) > tables    TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM  TABLE_NAME TABLE_TYPE REMARKS 1 D:\\R files\\TestData        <NA>

L.S. I am trying to get data from an excel sheet using the RODBC library, quite like the example on page 34 of the 'Data manipulation with R' book written by Phil Spector. It seems very straightforward, yet I get the same error everytime I try it, with different excel sheets and trying to tweek the code a bit. This is what I do: library(RODBC) sheet='X:\\example.xls'