Ahem.. solved. I had switched between rows and columns.. Sorry for the noise.
Best, m On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to read specific rows and columns from a xlsx file using the > following commands: > > # Read rows 18-23 and columns 7-15 into R and assign the result to a > variable > # called dat > > colIndex <- 18:23 > rowIndex <- 7:15 > dat <- read.xlsx("./data/natural_gas.xlsx", sheetIndex = 1, header = TRUE, > colIndex = colIndex, rowIndex = rowIndex) > > But I get this error: > > Error in strsplit(names(res), "\\.") : non-character argument > > > I don't understand where that non-character comes from. > When I read the whole file with: > > naturalGas <- read.xlsx("./data/natural_gas.xlsx", sheetIndex = 1, header > = TRUE) > > I don't get any problem. > > Should you be willing to try to reproduce this behavior, the file comes > from: > https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fdata%2FDATA.gov_NGAP.xlsx > > sessionInfo()R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > > I'm on debian Jessie. > > Disclaimer: this is a homework. > > Thank you in advance > > > -- > Best regards, > > Dr. Margherita DI LEO > Scientific / technical project officer > > European Commission - DG JRC > Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) > Via Fermi, 2749 > I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 > > Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 > margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu > > Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not > in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the > European Commission. > -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.