[R] Re ading Excel 5.0 files with RODBC?

Yuri Volchik yuri.volchik at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 09:08:45 CEST 2009


Thanks for reply David, 

but the problem is that the place i get those files from saves them in the
old Excel format (Excel 5.0), not Excel 97-2003, so neither of the packages
(RODBC, xlsReadWrite) can read it.

>Your question is a bit confusing. This is the current state of play 
>regarding reading and writing Excel files with xlsReadWrite and RODBC.
>
>xlsReadWrite will read and write from Excel 97-2003 files (.xls files) 
>including reading from named sheets, but only writing a single sheet 
>workbook.

Regards,
Yuri



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