Re: [R] RODBC excel - need to preserve (or extract) numeric column names

2011-04-05 Thread David Winsemius
sendet: Dienstag, 5. April 2011 00:05 An: r-help@r-project.org Betreff: [R] RODBC excel - need to preserve (or extract) numeric column names I'm using RODBC to read an excel file (not mine!). But I'm struggling to find a way to preserve the column names that have a numeric value. sq

Re: [R] RODBC excel - need to preserve (or extract) numeric column names

2011-04-05 Thread Enrico Schumann
n into other trouble. See ?make.names] regards, enrico > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Im Auftrag von Folkes, Michael > Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. April 2011 00:05 > An: r-help@r-project.org > Betreff:

Re: [R] RODBC excel - need to preserve (or extract) numeric column names

2011-04-04 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Folkes, Michael wrote: I'm using RODBC to read an excel file (not mine!). But I'm struggling to find a way to preserve the column names that have a numeric value. sqlFetch() drops the value and calls them f1, f2, f3,... (ie field number). this is a different

[R] RODBC excel - need to preserve (or extract) numeric column names

2011-04-04 Thread Folkes, Michael
I'm using RODBC to read an excel file (not mine!). But I'm struggling to find a way to preserve the column names that have a numeric value. sqlFetch() drops the value and calls them f1, f2, f3,... (ie field number). this is a different approach from read.csv, which will append "V" prior to th