[R] converting commas to points

[Uwe Ligges]

On 06.10.2011 17:39, Anna Lee wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I work with a german excell version which uses commas instead of
> points for seperating decimal places. R work with points so in order
> to be able to save my excell tables without changing the commas to
> points, whenever I load a table I type in: read.table(..., dec = ",")
> only R puts the points into the wron places. For excample excell has a
> cell with the number: 0,09 so what R does, it writes the number as 0.9

Please specify an example with the excel output and what R reads. You 
will find that such an example does not exist and hence you made some 
mistake and compared different numbers or so.

Uwe Ligges


> which is wrong and makes my calculations become useless.
>
> Does anyone know this problem? Maby I made a mistake somewhere?
>
> I would be glad about your answers!
>
> Cheers, Anna
>