[R] A question in R

Kevin Wang Kevin.Wang at maths.anu.edu.au
Tue Oct 12 23:31:42 CEST 2004


Hi,

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Kevin Bartz wrote:

> R looks less than fondly on Excel files. The easiest solution for you
> will be to export your Excel file to a tab-delimited text format (Save
> -> (.txt) Tab-delimited Text), and then use read.delim as you did. Does
> that make sense?

The alternative (tricky but more convinient in the long run) is to use the
read.xls() function from gregmisc bundle.

Cheers,

Kevin

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