[R] Staging area for data before read into R

[stephen sefick]

Well, I am going to type in ever value because the data sheets are of
counts of insects that I identified, so I should be okay with
accuracy...  I really just need something that allows for more than
256 columns as I have encounter over 256 species of insects in even
small streams.  I think calc with it's 1000ish columns will do the
trick... thanks everbody for your help.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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
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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
>>
>



-- 
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