[R] converting commas to points

[Eik Vettorazzi]

Hi Anna,
have a look at ?write.csv2, which deals with the Excel conventions for
CSV in German locale.

cheers


Am 06.10.2011 17:39, schrieb Anna Lee:
> 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
> 


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