Note that this is a Perl message (nothing to do with R), as the
message from gdata says pretty clearly.
Ask the gdata maintainer (see our posting guide) or on a Perl forum.
There are less restricted ways to read .xls files in R: XLConnect can
read this file, for example.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Spencer Graves wrote:
Hello:
I get "Wide character in print" from trying read.xls("22_data.xls") in
the gdata package, with "22_data.xls" downloaded from
"Varieties_Country_A-E.xls" at
"http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/":
library(gdata)
read.xls("22_data.xls")
Wide character in print at
C:/Users/sgraves/pgms/R/R-2.15.2/library/gdata/perl/xls2csv.pl line 270.
sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] gdata_2.12.0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gtools_2.7.0
I get the same message from xls2sep("22_data.xls").
It's only a comment, so I suppose I could ignore it. However, it's
generated by a function I'm adding to the Ecdat package, and I'd rather find
a way to avoid it. (I suppose I could dump it to sink, but that's pretty
extreme and could mask other problems.)
Thanks,
Spencer
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