John Maindonald wrote:
>
> Now I find that the dataset likewise gets truncated, to 16383 rows
> (additional to the heading). If one specifies more than 16384 rows,
> then the additional rows are filled with NAs. It is not nice.
> If one species e. g. rows 16485:18086, import.data responds that
> it cannot find these rows. At least one is in this case warned
> that something is wring.
>
> I presume import.data is using some register that can spare only
> 14 bits.
>
This looks to me as though S-Plus has been designed for Excel 95 or earlier
with a maximum of 16K rows. I use an Excel add-in, purportedly written for
Excel 97, that does the same thing.
Jim Youngman
Melbourne, Australia
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