[R] Reading Excel Formulas as values

[R. Michael Weylandt]

It sounds like this might actually make more sense to do in VBA and
not R (gasp!) if your only goal is to have excel in --> excel out.

[UNTESTED] As far as a workaround if you really want to do this in R,
perhaps you can specify that you want character vectors everywhere and
your connection client won't try to evaluate them. I don't really know
if this actually works though...If you are again willing to step
outside of R, there are clients [I'm thinking perl and Python] that
convert things to character csv's which would certainly make this
work.

Best,
Michael

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Mike Smith <ziggy55311 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I read excel files using the read.xlsx() command any cells that have
> formulas in them come up as NA.
>
> Is there a way to read just the numeric value of the cell without using the
> "paste value" command in Excel?  I need to read in hundreds of Excel
> spreadsheets and compile them into one large super spreadsheet
> automatically.  Hence the reason I cannot reformat each sheet manually.
>
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