[R] Rcmdr importing excel files

[John Kane]

Thanks very much. 
--- John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> Dear John and Stephen,
> 
> As I recall, importing from Excel, Access, or dBase
> files works properly
> only under Windows, and consequently the menu item
> appears only in Windows
> systems. I frankly don't recall why this is the
> case, since the RODBC
> package is used. The code for reading these kinds of
> files was contributed
> by Matthieu Lesnoff, to whom I'm copying this
> response. Maybe he'll have a
> more complete answer.
> 
> Regards,
>  John
> 
> --------------------------------
> John Fox, Professor
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of John Kane
> > Sent: February-26-08 5:27 PM
> > To: stephen sefick; r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] Rcmdr importing excel files
> > 
> > I'm on Windows XP R 2.6.2
> > The command
> > Data > Import > From Excel, Access etc
> > Supply data.frame name
> > Select xls file and then select the sheet seem to
> work
> > for me
> > 
> > What is not showing?
> > --- stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I am using R 2.6.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.9-  I would
> like
> > > to import excel
> > > files into R with Rcmdr, but This option does
> not
> > > present itself in
> > > the file menu.  Any help would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > > Stephen
> > >
> > > --
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> for us
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> have
> > > not exhausted the
> > > annoying little problems of being mammals.
> > >
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