[R] sorting data

[ONKELINX, Thierry]

Why don't you use a package like RODBC and read the data directly from
the Excel file? Then you probably won't have to worry on how to get the
dates in the right format.

Another, maybe easier, solution is to export the Excel to CSV and then
use read.csv().

Cheers,

Thierry

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> 
> I have a 2 columns, Date and Number, in Excel. 
> I copy and paste them into Notepad.
> I can use scan() to import the file but how do I plot this 
> data with Date as the x-axis?
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