[R] reading dates in Excel into R

[Peter Alspach]

Tena koe

What do you want to control?  You can govern the format used in R using the appropriate R functions.  I doubt it would be useful to have dates read from Excel depend on the format set for displaying those dates in Excel.

HTH ....

Peter Alspach

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> project.org] On Behalf Of Hongying Li
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> Subject: [R] reading dates in Excel into R
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> 
> I am reading dates in Excel2007 into R.
> 
> Here are the functions I used:
> 
> library(RODBC)
> channel<-odbcConnectExcel2007("myfile.xlsx")
> tmp<-sqlFetch(channel,"1",as.is=T)
> 
> 
> The dates in myfile.xlsx are all in this format: mm/dd/yyyy. But when I
> read it to R, some columns look like "yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00", some
> columns look like "yyyy-mm-dd", and some columns are numbers. I do not
> know how I can control this.
> 
> 
> 
> Any help? Thanks!
> 
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