[R] Staging area for data before read into R

[Christopher W. Ryan]

How about simply a text editor, typing in your data, separated by commas
or tabs or spaces?  One row for each case/subject/observation?  R can
read that in easily.

A good, open-source, free data entry program is EpiData.
www.epidata.dk.  It is simple to use but probably more than you need for
task.

--Chris

Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY  13790
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stephen sefick wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a better alternative than Excel for data
> storage that does not require database knowledge (I will eventually
> have to learn this, but it is not on my immediate todo list).  I need
> something that is not limited to 256 columns... I don't need any of
> the built in functions in excel just a spreadsheet like program with
> cells that hold data in a data.frame format for a staging area before
> I get it into R.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  This is not
> a direct r question, but all of you folks have more experience than I
> do and I am having a time finding what I need with google.
> thanks in advance
>