Dear mailing group,
This is my first time here. Glad to have this resource!
I am currently trying to load an Excel file into R (limma package loaded)
using the source(*name of directory*) command, but it cannot open the file.
I renamed the file as .R and .RData, to no avail. The Excel data
well, I don't know anything about the limma package and I might be
misunderstanding your apparently simple question
What I do for excel files is the following:
1. I save a copy of the file as .csv (comma separated values) in the
working directory. This format allows you work perfectly with the
no idea bout limma. but you could load excel data into R by using rodbc.
here is a sample code and hope it helpful.
library(RODBC);
###
# 1. READ DATA FROM EXCEL INTO R #
###
R won't read an Excel sheet directly. You need to export it, saving it as a
CSV or tab delimited file. You can then import using read.table. The entire
path and file have to be in double-quotes as well. Try ?read.table for more
info.
JWD
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 19:48, N. Goodacre
another options: use read.xls in gdata pcakges if you have installed
perl in you machine .
12 Jan 2006 03:48:26 +, N. Goodacre [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear mailing group,
This is my first time here. Glad to have this resource!
I am currently trying to load an Excel file into R (limma
