[R] How to read an excel data into R?

[Wensui Liu]

Ling,

You might take a look at the function read.xls() in gdata library.

HTH.


On 6/22/05, Ling Jin <ljin at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anybody know the easiest way to import excel data into R? I copied
> and pasted the excel data into a txt file, and tried read.table, but R
> reported that
> 
> Error in read.table("data_support.txt", sep = " ", header = T) :
>          more columns than column names
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ling
> 
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