[R] can't read excel file with read.xls()

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Apr 3 01:05:24 CEST 2010


Read about the bugs and workarounds on this page:
http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, array chip <arrayprofile at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, I encountered a problem of not being able to read in an excel spreadsheet using read.xls() in the xlsReadWrite package. can anyone help? Here is an example code
>
>
> write.xls(matrix(1:9,nrow=3),"ttt.xls")
> read.xls("ttt.xls")
> Error in read.xls("ttt.xls") :
>  Unexpected error. Message: Can't find the file "ttt.xls"
>
> The "ttt.xls" file was created in the current working folder successfully.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
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