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 <jdnew...@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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > Andrew Roberts <and...@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 >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>PLEASE do read the posting guide >>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.