similar to: Excel opens files as read-only

Hello! A few users on my network has complained about Excel opening files as read-only. What is weird is that the files aren't. I can open such a file using notepad and write to it, but when the same file is opened in Excel, Excel says it's read-only. Anyone know what the problem is? Workstations run WinXP and office is 2k3. These files are shared between many users, but I don't

The Excel 'database' I am pulling from mixes multiple character indicators for different kinds of non-numeric results in the same column as the numeric values. A simple sqlFetch turns all of the character indicators into NAs. I would like to pull in all of the Excel data as character so that I can split the column into multiple types of vectors and control the type conversion within R. Can

Hi, I?m using R package RDCOMClient (http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMClient/) to retrieve data from MS Excel workbook. I?m using the code below to count the number of sheets in the workbook and then loop the data from sheets in to a list. ############# R code ################### library(gdata) library(RDCOMClient) xl <- COMCreate("Excel.Application") sh <-

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

Hello R-users, Checking the archives, I recently came across this topic: "export tables to Excel files" (http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/export-tables-to-Excel-files-td1565679.html#a1565679), and the following interesting references have been proposed: http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows

Dear group, I am working on a rather big project where the output data frames have dimensions of 3000 x 15 or greater. We are using xlsx and xlsx2 to write the data.frames to Excel sheets. Since recently we get the following error, when trying to write the data frames to the excel sheets: Error in ls(envir = envir, all.names = private) : invalid 'envir' argument We figured out that

Nathan, Thanks for the tips. Most of these settings were already in place, but the ones that were not already there I set up, with the exception of the 'force group' setting. I hesitate to try this simply because many of the subfolders under the shared volume are have their access controlled by group, and I didn't want to risk preventing others from accessing their files in the middle

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'

Hello all, I have always experienced VERY SLOW response times on opening an EXCEL sheet ever since I had started to use SAMBA WAY back. I have been hoping that a newer release would fix this one issue but it never seems to happen. Does anyone know what could be the problem? I can open the same Excel sheet on a Novell server and it opens instantly. I have no problems with WORD documents. They

Under Windows, I have used RODBC to connect to Excel spreadsheets as per the example below: library(RODBC); connect = odbcConnectExcel("testdata.xls"); query = "SELECT [data$.ethn], [data$.sex], [data$.age], [data$.height], [data$.weight], [label$.label] FROM [data$], [label$] WHERE [data$.ethn] = [label$.ethn];" data =

> Hi, > > I am new to ruby on rails.I am having problem reading excel files. I > tried using gem ''parseexcel'' but still the error is coming. > Could you please help me with the code and how to use this gem? Is > there any better way to read excel sheets. > > Snippet of Code: > > require ''rubygems'' > require_gem

Last and least important... I handle some sheets with dynamic links to several sheets and excel 2007 (in wine, obviously) is not able to open sheets like this. When trying to open I get one of these send or don't send error report , restart excel, etc. message boxes. Thanks again people!

Hey all, We're having some trouble saving Excel documents on our Samba Fileserver. We are moving people over to our Samba box, and have moved most of our documents over. Now, we have people opening their Excel documents, but are unable to save them. When something is saved, we see this message: Your changes could not be saved to 'document.xls', but were saved to a temporary document

I really appreciate all the helpful answers from Richard Müller, Marc Schwartz, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Vito Ricci. I tried Marc's simple suggestion which was to copy only the data area and paste to a new excel sheet, and that solved my problem. I'll try other suggestions while I'm learning more about R. Unedited answers are provided below followed by my question. Thanks again. Kyong

I upgraded to samba 3.0 recently. I have a lot of shares containing excel workbooks that need to be rea only for certain people and writable by others. If I try and open any one that is resctricted to read only, whether by samba "read list" etc. of using linux ext permissions windows compalins that the file could not be found, check the spelling of the filaname blah blah ... No errors

Hi, I'm trying to read several Excel sheets from an Excel file into a list. I'm using read.xls from package 'gdata'. I would like to know how I can check the number of sheets before the loop (in the example below) so that I could adjust the loop counter? Any suggestions? DF.list <- list() for (i in 1:4) { DF.list[[i]] <- read.xls("sample_file.xls", sheet=i,

Dear list members I am pleased to annonce that I have just finished a native Excel reader/writer. It's wrapped up in two packages: either "xlsReadWrite" (open source) or the slightly beefed-up "xlsReadWritePro" (shareware). Working with Excel data is now as easy as writing read.xls and write.xls. Some more details: - Infos and download: http://treetron.googlepages.com -

Samba version: Samba 3.0 rebuild from SRPM on RedHat 8.0 w/XFS. I ran into this problem (which sounds a lot like Bugzilla Bug 51) when copying files from a CD-ROM to a Samba share on a W2K client. Double-clicking on the file name in an Explorer window gives the file not found error, but File->Open from Excel, and double-clicking the the filename in the file-open dialog-box works fine. The

Hans-Peter and other R developers, How are you? Have you made any progess with embedding Url's in Excel? Well, I have been busy thinking of more things for you to do;) My colleagues in the lab are not R literate, and some are barely computer literate, so I give them everything in Excel workbooks. I have gradually evolved a system such that these workbooks have become compendia of my

Try the function sqlFetch to import the data in the spreadsheet. jo<-odbcConnectExcel("i:\\all\\sorkinjohn\\stats\\silvermannatalie\\NEMOcomb ined06-24-09.xls",readOnly = TRUE) mo<-sqlFetch(jo,'Your Sheet Name or Number',colnames=F,rownames=F) mo Hope it helps. ------------------------------------------------------------- MSc. Rodrigo Aluizio Centro de Estudos do