[R] converting commas to points

[Rainer Schuermann]

>From ?read.csv:

   read.csv2( file, header = TRUE, sep = ";", quote="\"", dec=",",
   fill = TRUE, comment.char="", ...)

I think this is specifically set up for German decimal commas.

Rgds,
Rainer





On Thursday 06 October 2011 17:39:46 Anna Lee wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I work with a german excell version which uses commas instead of
> points for seperating decimal places. R work with points so in order
> to be able to save my excell tables without changing the commas to
> points, whenever I load a table I type in: read.table(..., dec = ",")
> only R puts the points into the wron places. For excample excell has a
> cell with the number: 0,09 so what R does, it writes the number as 0.9
> which is wrong and makes my calculations become useless.
> 
> Does anyone know this problem? Maby I made a mistake somewhere?
> 
> I would be glad about your answers!
> 
> Cheers, Anna
> 
>