[R] excel files and R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Victor H. Marím wrote:

> I am new at R.  My questions is rather basic.  Looking R manuals looks
> like there should be a way to read MS excel files into R.  Could
> somebody tell me which library should I use for that?

Several ways are in the R Data Import/Export Manual (the obvious manual, I
would have thought).  If you are working on Windows, using RODBC is
perhaps the simplest.

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