Re: [R] RE:

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Peter Dalgaard BSA (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)
09 Nov 1999 16:34:33 +0100



Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr> writes:

> I usually do this by saving the spreadsheet in comma-separated variable
> (csv) format, and then read it into R with this command
>
> foo.dat <- read.table("foo.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")

...which reminds me that my students keep complaining that Excel does
CSV files with comma as decimal point and semicolon as separators if
Windows is localised to Danish (and I suppose also German). At least
it is better than some other programs that would use comma for both
items(!) but I suppose we need to cater for that kind of format along
with the other CSV specialities. (BTW is there any way of
distinguishing between 2 integer columns with comma as separator and 1
column of decimal numbers with comma as decimal point??)

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