Hi R,
I have an excel file in which the third column is "date" and others are "character" and "numeric". Number of columns are 12 If I use this to read the file in R: x = read.xls("D:\\file.xls") The problem is that my date column is read in julian dates. So I am using: x = read.xls("D:\\file.xls", colClasses= c(rep("character",2),"isodate",rep("character",9))) But what can I do in case I don't know the number of columns in my file?? I mean is there any way I can specify the colClass of only third column and for other columns it can take the default classes?? Regards Utkarsh This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.