[R] read.xlsx - write.xlsx: reading/writing numbers as character

[Mohsen Jafarikia]

It looks okay on CSV too.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Jim Holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Write it out as a csv from excel and see what the data looks like.  That
> may help  in seeing what the problem is.
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mohsen Jafarikia
> Date:01/14/2016 11:36 (GMT-05:00)
> To: jim holtman
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] read.xlsx - write.xlsx: reading/writing numbers as
> character
>
> Thanks for the comment Jim. There is no blank cell. All have numbers.
>
> Mohsen
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:29 AM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at the data coming in since you may have something that looks
>> like characters (maybe 'blanks').  What you think is numeric in EXCEL might
>> not be.​
>>
>>
>> Jim Holtman
>> Data Munger Guru
>>
>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Mohsen Jafarikia <jafarikia at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I am reading some excel files (each with one sheet) and trying to write
>>> them all in one file. I am not sure if read.xlsx reads some of the
>>> columns
>>> as character or write.xlsx writes them as character where they are not
>>> characters. I have 12 columns (2 character and 10 numbers). From 10
>>> number
>>> columns, with float and integer numbers, only 3 of them are recognized
>>> correctly. I was wondering how can I define the the column format for
>>> read.xlsx - write.xlsx.
>>>
>>> Here comes a simple example of my code:
>>>
>>> ifn1 <- "A.xlsx"
>>> dat1  <- read.xlsx(ifn1, sheetName="A.csv", header = TRUE)
>>>
>>> ifn2 <- "F.xlsx"
>>> dat2  <- read.xlsx(ifn2, sheetName="F.csv",header = TRUE)
>>>
>>> write.xlsx(dat1,  file="AF.xlsx", sheetName="A",   showNA=FALSE,
>>> row.names=FALSE, append=FALSE)
>>> write.xlsx(dat2,  file="AF.xlsx", sheetName="F",   showNA=FALSE,
>>> row.names=FALSE, append= TRUE)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> Mohsen
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