[R] Reading Excel files...Error

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Wed Jun 15 15:19:46 CEST 2005


Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. <JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI <at> saic.com> writes:
> If you need work-around, than you can always save excel file in csv format
> and than read that. See 'read.csv' or 'read.csv2'. 

Or use read.xls() from Greg's gdata package on CRAN.  Gdata "embeds" Perl
code for reading xls files. Works on Linux, Windoze, ... provided Perl is 
installed.

Hth, Dirk




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