[R] reading .odf spreadsheet into R

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at comcast.net
Tue Feb 3 16:09:38 CET 2009


I have not used it, but if you are at all comfortable with Perl, you
might want to look at the Spreadsheet::Read module:

  http://search.cpan.org/~HMBRAND/Spreadsheet-Read/Read.pm

There is a wiki article here:

http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/Howto_read_OpenOffice_OpenDocument_spreadsheets_in_Perl

that provides an overview of Perl options to read ODS files.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

on 02/03/2009 08:18 AM Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> Using unoconv (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/unoconv/)
> might be a solution.
> 
> stephen sefick wrote:
>> I have searched the archives and I did not find the answer to my
>> question.  Is there a way to read in a .odf spreadsheet without
>> modification to a .csv file.  I am analyzing my classes scores on
>> their first exam, and would like to read the grade book in without
>> converting it to .csv.
>> thanks




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