[R] xlsx problem

[Steven McKinney]

Hi Cristoph,

Glad to hear it worked - replying to r-help in case others face this issue.


Cheers

Steven McKinney

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From: Martin Knapp [mkna005 at aucklanduni.ac.nz]
Sent: March 28, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Steven McKinney
Subject: Re: [R] xlsx problem

Thanks that worked.
still don't know what was wrong though but I can live with that.

Christoph

On 29 March 2011 14:16, Steven McKinney <smckinney at bccrc.ca> wrote:
> Dear Christoph
>
> Are there formulas in any cells of sheet 6?
>
> One thing you might try is to open up the spreadsheet in Excel and create a new sheet,
> call it Sheet 7.
>
> In Sheet 6, select all the cells with data (or just click the
> upper left icon at the border of the spreadsheet that selects the whole
> sheet, <Control>-a will also do this), then go to sheet 7 and
> do a Paste Special - Values
>
> If you just paste the values, then save the file and read Sheet 7, does that work?
>
>
> While you're in the spreadsheet, see if you can spot any odd looking entries on sheet 6.
> Excel lets people put just about anything, just about anywhere.
>
> Steven McKinney
> ________________________________________
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Knapp [mkna005 at aucklanduni.ac.nz]
> Sent: March 28, 2011 1:43 PM
> To: r-help
> Subject: [R] xlsx problem
>
> Dear list,
> I'm running windows xp with R 2.12.0. I'm trying to load a excel
> spreadsheet into R using the xlsx package. I posted my code below with
> the error I get.
>
>> res <- read.xlsx("Copy of test_excel_input_data.xlsx", 6)
> Error in .jcall("RJavaTools", "Ljava/lang/Object;", "invokeMethod", cl,  :
>  java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot get a numeric value from a text cell
>
> There are 6 sheets in that file. 5 of them are read into a dataframe
> without problem. For the 6th one(the one I actually need) I get this
> error message.
> There is obviously something in the format of the sheet wrong. Has
> anyone an idea whats going wrong and what I have to change in the
> sheet?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Christoph
>
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