S-Plus Question

[rgullbe@wsp.wa.gov]

I have a question about S-Plus.  I am using the student version 4.5 on a
laptop PC and am a student at the University of Washington.  I am having
difficulty reading in an Excel file.  The data is saved as numeric format in
Excel but when I read it into S-Plus it no longer recognizes it as numeric.
So, I used the following code to make it numeric.  But when I run this code
as a script file it changes my  y  variables from 0's and 1's to 1's and
2's.  I would appreciate any help.

Thanks very much,

Rod Gullberg
Seattle, Washington


import.data(DataFrame="data",FileName="A:/dat1.xls",FileType="EXCEL")
y_data$V2
x_data$V3
mode(x)_"numeric"
mode(y)_"numeric"
y
x