The best advice that anyone could give: See fortunes::fortune("Friends") . cheers, Rolf Turner On 6/12/19 4:39 am, Thomas Subia wrote:
Colleagues, I'm trying to extract a cell from all Excel files in a directory. library(readxl) files <- list.files(pattern="*.xls", full.names = FALSE) date <- lapply(files, read_excel, sheet="Sheet1", range=("B5")) date_df <- as.data.frame(date) trans_date <-t(date_df) mydates <- list(trans_date) write.table(mydates,"mydates.txt",sep="\t") Looking at mydates.txt shows: "" "Saturday..June.09..2018" "Saturday..June.09..2018.1" "Saturday..June.09..2018.2" But the original Excel contents are: Saturday, June 09, 2018 Saturday, June 09, 2018 Saturday, June 09, 2018 I get a similar problem with my serial numbers serial <-lapply(files, read_excel, sheet="Sheet1", range=("B9")) serial_df <- as.data.frame(serial) trans_serial <-t(serial_df) myserials <- list(trans_serial) write.table(myserials,"myserials.txt",sep="\t") R Output "" "X96739.0027.1" "X96739.0041.1" "X96739.0044.1" Original Excel Content 96739-0027/1 96739-0041/1 96739-0044/1 How can I amend my script so that the output matches the original Excel content?
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