[R] RODBC: forcing a special column to be read in as character

[Jack T.]

I've had the same problem and ended up using the xlsReadWrite package.  It
takes more time to import a sheet but does have the colClasses command.

Following your example:

library(xlsReadWrite)
read.xls("testtable", sheet = "sheet1", colClasses="character")

should worked, it did for me

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