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I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file into R using RODBC. I have obtained and installed ODBC and the RODBC package, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about it. Can anyone give me a simple recipe? I have an excel file on cdrom, say: /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls I have started R and loaded

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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

Hello there, In gdata package, read.xls is to be used for reading excel data (from windows). The following is my code:('C:/session/sampledata.xls' is where the file is stored) data1<-read.xls('C:/session/sampledata.xls',sheet=1) and I got the following error message: Error in system(cmd, intern = !verbose) : perl not found Could you please tell me what I have done wrong and

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 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!

Estimados: Tengo un directorio con varios archivos Excel quiero importarlos todos y grabarlos en un único archivo .dbf. Haciendolo uno por uno lo logro de la siguiente manera (solo tomo 2 archivos): archivos <- list.files(pattern = 'xls') a1 <- read.xls(archivos[1], perl="C:\\strawberry\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe",skip=12,dec=",",header=F,as.is=T) a2 <-

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 =

Full_Name: Bert Gunter Version: 2.0.0 patched OS: Win2000 Submission from: (NULL) (192.12.78.250) The TRUE/FALSE options of the colnames argument in sqlFetch (RODBC) seem to be reversed, at least for .xls files. ## z is a connection to an xls workbook opened by odbcConnectExcel() > dat<-sqlFetch(z,'SuccessRates',colnames=FALSE) > dat[1:5,] RecID Name Run Grams Lost Run

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

Hi, everyone, I try to run as follows: Z>library("RODBC") Z>cnct<-odbcConnectExcel("Forbes2000.xls") Z>cnct RODB Connection 1 Details: case=nochange DBQ=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.5.0\Forbes2000.xls DefaultDir=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.5.0 Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)} DriverId=790 MaxBufferSize=2048 PageTimeout=5 Z>sqlQuery(cnct, "select

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

Dear all, I've used RODBC a lot to read in files created in MS excel and access but found a strange problem today: a variable in my data file contained both numbers and text; sqlFetch would set text within a row of numbers to NA; but if first 5 or 6 rows would be text then all numbers would be read in as NA. con<-odbcConnectExcel("xample.xls") #the file is attached or at

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

After importing data from Excel through ODBC. In the inclusion dataset, class(inclusion$Value) is coming as factor. After filtering the data, length(inclusion$Value == 0),the answer is coming as 4879, but actually Value contains only 225 rows. So how can I get the length as 225. Can anyone help? setwd("D:/AZ") library("RODBC") cdb_cnct <-

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

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 All, I'm using R 2.11.1 on 64 bit windows XP. The little function I wrote below I use often to import the first 1001 lines in an excel sheet to R. This works fine on the 32 bit version of R but fails on the 64 bit [both on the same machine, using the same function, importing the same .xls file]. The message from 64 bit R is: Error in sqlTables(channel1) : first argument is not an

Hello everybody, here is the code I use to read an excel file containing two rows, one of date, the other of prices: library(RODBC) z <- odbcConnectExcel("SPX_HistoricalData.xls") datas <- sqlFetch(z,"Sheet1") close(z) It works pretty well but the only thing is that the datas stop at row 7530 and I don?t know why datas is a data frame that contains 7531 rows with the

Changing library(RODBC,boot) to library(RODBC) library(boot) seems to have solved the problem. _____ _____________________________________________ From: Gary Smith [mailto:gary.smith28 at comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:55 PM To: 'r-help at R-project.org' Subject: can't get package boot to load Hi, I am new to R and I'm totally confused by this problem.