[R] Excel *.xls files, RODBC

[Chuck Cleland]

   The following works for me under WinXP Pro to create "myframe" as a 
data frame:

library(RODBC)
z <- odbcConnectExcel("c:/myfolder/mydata.xls")
myframe <- sqlFetch(z, "Sheet1")
close(z)

   Are you indicating the name of the worksheet you want within the 
*.xls file?  I suspect there could be additional issues on a non-Windows 
OS that I don't know about.

hope this helps,

Chuck Cleland

Rolf Turner wrote:
> I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be
> possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file
> into R using RODBC.  I have obtained and installed ODBC and the RODBC
> package, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about
> it.  Can anyone give me a simple recipe?
> 
> I have an excel file on cdrom, say:
> 
> 	/mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls
> 
> I have started R and loaded the RODBC package.  I want to create
> a data frame ``melvin'' by reading in /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls.
> What (in monosyllables --- step by step) do I do next?

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