[R] inconsistency in display of character vector....

[Eric Berger]

Hi Akshay,
Package "openxlsx" has function read.xlsx() which returns a data frame.

HTH,
Eric


On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 2:43 PM, akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 using hotmail.com>
wrote:

> dear members,
>                              I've gone through debug(update.snlcqn)
> (update.snlcqn is the above function) and  I think the problem lies in
> read_excel returning a tibble...any suggestions on how to convert it to a
> regular data frame? Any other packages that read xls files as a regular
> data frame?
>
> Very many thanks for your time and effort....
> Yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Eric Berger <ericjberger using gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 9, 2018 12:15 PM
> *To:* PIKAL Petr
> *Cc:* akshay kulkarni; R help Mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [R] inconsistency in display of character vector....
>
> >  If (identical(snlcqn, snlcqna)) snlcqn else snlcqna
>
> ??
>
> Why not just always return snicqna ?
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 9:43 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal using precheza.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> You definitely should not use HTML formated mail. This is plain text
> mailing list for reason.
>
> If you experience space between "NSE/" and pasted second part, you should
> read paste help page which states
>
> paste (..., sep = " ", collapse = NULL)
>
> so it has space as separator.
>
> You should use paste0 if you want to get rid of separating space or
> axplicitely state
> paste (..., sep = "")
>
> > lneq <- c()
> > for (i in 1:10) lneq[i] <- letters[i]
> > lneq
>  [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j"
> > snlcqna<-LETTERS[1:10]
> > for (j in 1:10) snlcqna[j] <- paste("NSE/",lneq[j])
> > snlcqna
>  [1] "NSE/ a" "NSE/ b" "NSE/ c" "NSE/ d" "NSE/ e" "NSE/ f" "NSE/ g" "NSE/
> h"
>  [9] "NSE/ i" "NSE/ j"
> > for (j in 1:10) snlcqna[j] <- paste0("NSE/",lneq[j])
> > snlcqna
>  [1] "NSE/a" "NSE/b" "NSE/c" "NSE/d" "NSE/e" "NSE/f" "NSE/g" "NSE/h"
> "NSE/i"
> [10] "NSE/j"
>
> Cheers
> Petr
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of akshay
> > kulkarni
> > Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2018 2:38 PM
> > To: R help Mailing list <r-help using r-project.org>
> > Subject: [R] Fw: inconsistency in display of character vector....
> >
> > dear members,
> >                              The mail is not showing the spaces between
> [192]
> > "NSE/YESBANK" and  [193] "NSE/ZEEL" ...Actually there is a lot of empty
> spaces
> > between the two.....!!!!!!
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of akshay kulkarni
> > <akshay_e4 using hotmail.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2018 5:58 PM
> > To: R help Mailing  list
> > Subject: [R] inconsistency in display of character vector....
> >
> > dear members,
> >                             I have the following code to update the list
> of stocks:
> >
> > function (snlcqn)
> > {
> >                   lneq <- c()
> >                   URL <- "https://canmoney.in/Intraday%20scrip.xls"
> >                   file.string <- tempfile()
> >
> >                   download.file(URL,file.string)
> >
> >                   IDT <- read_excel(file.string)
> >
> >                   leq <- IDT[,1]
> >
> >                   for(i in 1:length(leq)){
> >                   lneq[i] <- substr(leq[i],1,(nchar(leq[i])-2))}
> >
> >                   for(j in 1:length(lneq)){
> >                   snlcqna[j] <- paste("NSE/",lneq[j])}
> >
> >                   if(identical(snlcqn,snlcqna) == "FALSE"){
> >                   return(snlcqna)                         }
> >
> >                   else                                    {
> >                   return(snlcqn)                          }
> >
> > }
> > snlcqn is the list of present stocks and snlcqna is the list of updated
> stocks.
> > The problem is the return object, instead of getting displayed in
> contiguous list,
> > is getting displayed with lots of spaces...( I am using R on a LINUX
> RHEL AWS
> > instance):
> >
> > [192] "NSE/YESBANK"
> > [193] "NSE/ZEEL"
> >
> > Why is this happening? How can I get the return object as a contiguous
> list?
> > Very many thanks for your time and effort...
> > yours sincerely,
> > AKSHAY M KULKARNI
> >
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