[R] converting commas to points

[Anna Lee]

Sorry guys, I allready found the solution. Excell showed some of the
numbers in the format: 1,90053-E05 and R interpreted it as 1.9... I
changed that in Excel

Cheers, Anna

Am 6. Oktober 2011 17:48 schrieb Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>
>
> On 06.10.2011 17:39, 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
>
> Please specify an example with the excel output and what R reads. You will
> find that such an example does not exist and hence you made some mistake and
> compared different numbers or so.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>> 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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