[R] odbcConnectExcel() fails to fetch all columns

[andrija djurovic]

Hi.
I use RODBC for importing Excel files quiet often and never got the
similar problem.

Have you tried with sqlQuery?

>>z <- odbcConnectExcel("./BBaselinePtQaires_apr2011.xls")

BQ <- sqlQuery(z, "select * from [BBaselinePtQaires$]")

Andrija

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> Excel is not a database, and the Excel ODBC driver is extremely limited. Put your data in a CSV file or a SQL database (even a Jet database is a step up from Excel).
>
>  http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/odbc_excel.html
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> Andrew Roberts <andrew at thinkingbone.org> wrote:
>
>>Folks,
>>
>>Is there a parameter somewhere in RODBC that enables more columns to be
>>
>>retrieved from an Excel worksheet?
>>
>># This next bit uses an undocumented call in RODBC
>>z <- odbcConnectExcel("./BBaselinePtQaires_apr2011.xls")
>>BQ <- sqlFetch(z, "BBaselinePtQaires")
>>
>>Gives me:
>>
>>z RODBC[1]
>>
>>And
>>
>>BQ 134 obs. of 59 variables
>>
>>I have all the rows in the worksheet but only the first 59 out of a
>>total of 70 columns. I’m in RStudio 0.95.263 using RODBC 1.3-3 and R
>>version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25).
>>
>>I'm puzzled - the worksheet seems ok. If the worst comes to the worst I
>>
>>will have to split the worksheet and cbind to put it back together but
>>that seems inelegant. The worksheet contains 134 rows, 70 columns and
>>is
>>in a spreadsheet that weighs in at 154 KB in total.
>>
>>Can you help unbaffle me?
>>
>>Andrew
>>
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