Using the package rcom (by Thomas Baier) you can do everything you want since you have the full power of COM at your disposal.
Dieter Menne wrote: > > > Hans-Peter Suter wrote: >>> If you only have the sheet names, you should use package xlsReadWrite >>> which >>> is rather fast, but has some limitations in the non-commercial version. >> what limitations, i.e. features do you miss? >> >> > > Reading of named ranges. > > Dieter > -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.