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Question about the excel spreadsheet row limit
Hi, I'm having trouble understanding what is meant by the excel worksheet/workbook row limit of 1,048,576 rows. Does this mean that Excel cannot display a greater number of rows or that it c...
I've just run an experiment using an R data frame with 1.5 million rows of data (1 column with random numbers from 1-9). I wrote the dataset to an .xlsx file, then I read the .xlsx file into SAS. The SAS dataset has all 1.5 million rows. Do you know why this is?
When I open it, I get this message:
If I press yes, then I get this message:
In excel, it only shows the first 1,048,576 rows, as expected. When I close out of excel, it asks if I want to save. If I say yes, then the rows after 1,048,576 rows are removed (checking in R). If I don't save, they remain.