> On Aug 30, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Nelly Reduan <nell.r...@hotmail.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> From an Excel file imported into R where each cell contains characters, I
> would like to convert some characters to numeric. However, my code doesn’t
> work. When I write data to worksheets in an Excel file, some numbers in the
> cells are stored as text (instead of numeric). Here is my code (the Excel
> file is attached):
Nope. No file was attached in what was circulated. The list-server scrubs
potentially malicious files (including zip, csv, or xls files). You could send
a "csv" file with extension of ".txt".
>
> rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))
> library(XLConnect)
> tab <- loadWorkbook("C:/Users/Downloads/File.xlsx", create = TRUE)
> set <- readWorksheet(tab, sheet = "settings")
> setNum <- readWorksheet(tab, sheet = "settings", colTypes="numeric")
Presumably you could also send the results of
dput(setNum)
.. either as a .txt attachment or embedded in an email.
> index <- which((!is.na(setNum)), arr.ind=TRUE)
> if(length(index)!=0){
> set[index] <- unlist(lapply(set[index], function(x)
> as.numeric(as.character(x))))
> }
> ## to check
> set[10,1] ## Problem: must be numeric !!!!
>
> writeWorksheetToFile("C:/Users/Downloads/Test.xlsx", data=set,
> sheet="settings", styleAction = XLC$"STYLE_ACTION.NONE")
>
> How can I convert the numbers which are stored as characters to numeric?
Have you tried using the formatting features of Excel to change the default
"auto" sttings of black columns? You could select an entire column and set its
format to numeric. I know this sometimes fixes the annoying habit of Excel of
changing texts items withn interior dashes to dates.
--
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'
-Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
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