[R] Staging area for data before read into R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There is a list of free spreadsheets with their row and column limits
at this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:13 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry excel 2003 with no immediate update in the future.
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You didn't say which version of Excel you are using but Excel 2007
>> allows 16,384 columns.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:27 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stephen Sefick
>>> Research Scientist
>>> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>>>
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> --
> Stephen Sefick
> Research Scientist
> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
> make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
> annoying little problems of being mammals.
>
>                                                                -K. Mullis
>