[R] Import from excel 2007

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at comcast.net
Tue Oct 16 19:30:24 CEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:21 +0200, Scionforbai wrote:
> > Such workarounds should normally be avoided.
> 
> You forgot to mention: Excel should normally be avoided.
> 
> Risk of scrambling data while exporting to a simple ascii formatted text file?
> Is it a joke?

No.  Excel is notorious for this.

See:

  http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html

HTH,

Marc Schwartz



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