[R] A curious bug in read.xls

[Peter Dalgaard]

Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> I found a curious bug in read.xls. I don't know if it's reproducible.
>
> It's like this: suppose I do a read.xls in a spreadsheet. A column
> begins with a number. Then, any strings below it will be rendered as NA.
> If the column begins with a string, then it will be rendered correctly.
>
> Alberto Monteiro
>
>   
Notice that this is in a contributed package (at least two of which have
a read.xls...), not R as such.

It would seem to be by design: The first value determines the variable
type. You should be able to override this logic by using the colClasses
argument.


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