On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:13:34 -0400 ast...@mathnmaps.com wrote: > Is there a way to use read.xls to copy a portion of a single row of > an XLS spreadsheet to a list, without getting assigning row and > column numbers, and, if the data consists of strings, without > assigning levels?
If you mean the read.xls function from gdata package, it uses read.csv to read the temporary CSV file produced from the XLS file and passes its arguments using ..., so it should be possible to pass as.is = TRUE and prevent factors from appearing. It doesn't seem to be possible to prevent row and column names from being produced (except passing header = F if your CSV doesn't have a header). The readxl[*] package offers somewhat saner defaults, so you might want to try that, too. -- Best regards, Ivan [*] https://readxl.tidyverse.org/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
