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Problem with csv2xls.py

Le P'tit Nicolas — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:07:10 -0000

Columns from csv files are not split on the output file, when the data are separated by ";"

If the data are separated by "," python says "Infile name is not a valid csv file"

Re: Problems with dataframes2xls

guido van steen — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:43:50 -0000

Also it would be nice if this worked:

write.xls(c(a = DFa, b = DFb))

In that case a and b would be used as the sheet names, DFa and DFb
would be used as the data frames and there would be no need to parse
the x argument or use get internally within write.xls. Such parsing
and use of get would only be needed if sh.names were not specified and
x were not a named list. Internally you could just use x]]1]],
x[[2]], etc. to refer to the data frames and internally names(x) would
give the sheet names. Also sh.names, if specified, would not only
override names(x) but should be specifiable as a vector of names
rather than as a string of the form: a:::b:::c

Reported by Gabor Grothendieck on Mon, 21 May 2012 03:35:25 -0700 (PDT)

Problems with dataframes2xls

guido van steen — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:41:14 -0000

Hi, Guido:

Thanks for your useful "dataframes2xls" package. I just modified writeFindFn2xls{sos} to use it if it cannot get either RODBC or WriteXLS (which had previously been programmed) to work -- with substantial help from Gabor Grothendieck. Along the way, I encountered 3 concerns that I felt a need to report to you:

(1) With "\n" in a character string in the data.frame, write.xls fails to write a file, noting, "Infile name is not a valid csv file" without
throwing an error.

(2) With "," in a character string in the data.frame, it splits that element over multiple columns, thereby corrupting what is written.

(3) It insists on quoting all all character strings. I don't need or want those extraneous quotes, but I don't know how to get rid of them.

I've gotten past the first two problems using gsub('\n|,', ' ', strings), and I plan to ignore the third. If you know how to specify a format that will suppress the quotes, I will appreciate it. You may not have the time to consider improving these features of dataframes2xls, but I felt a need to mention them in case you do. I know of no way to write an Excel file that works out of the box on all platforms. Your dataframes2xls seems to provide something useful in this regard.

Thanks,
Spencer