[R] spreadsheet data import

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Tomás Revilla <trevilla at strix.ciens.ucv.ve> writes:

> Hi colleages!
> 
> I want to import data from ms-excel and other spreadsheet formats (lotus, etc). Does exist any way to do it within 
> R? The main problem is that many spreadsheet data use comma as decimal separator and not the point as needed in R 
> (and many software for Linux), so importing data first as a tab separated values does not solve this problem.

Oh yes it does. Notice the "dec" argument and read.delim2().

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