Be surprised :-)

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/HGNChelper/index.html

The trouble with anything readable by Excel is that people will turn around
and send it back to you.  Including vendors


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Steve Lianoglou <
mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Chintanu <chintanu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Wondering whether there already a tried and tested solution in R to deal
> > with the issue of mistaken identifiers [Zeeberg et al. (2004) Mistaken
> > Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using
> > Excel in bioinformatics; BMC Bioinformatics]. After analysing data, I
> often
> > do write.csv () and the output file is then shared to be often looked at
> > using MS Excel.
>
> I'd be surprised if you'll find a better solution than just informing
> people downstream to turn off the auto-correct feature.
>
> Perhaps putting together small tutorials for different
> platforms/versions that step people through the process of disabling
> this "feature" would be handy -- and perhaps it might be handier to
> put on a wiki some where for the better good of humanity.
>
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
>  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
>  | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
> Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
>
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