[R] Error on reading an excel file

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 00:33:48 CET 2009


That doesn't necessarily follow since the various methods don't use
Excel itself to create the csv file.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:22 PM, cls59 <chuck at sharpsteen.net> wrote:
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>
>> You could try one of the other methods of reading Excel files and see
>> if they are affected:
>>
>
> I would guess that since Excel includes the blank rows when exporting to
> CSV, then blank cells are being stored by Excel in the data files--
> therefore any method of extracting data from those files will also pick up
> the empty cells.
>
> I think the crux of this issue lies with Excel and you will probably have to
> look for a fix there.
>
>
> -Charlie
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