On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:02:23AM -0500, Whit Armstrong wrote: > Has anyone looked into using the Jakarta POI to save R data directly to xls > format? > > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html > > One of the advantages of POI over the DCOM interface is that one could use > unix/linux platforms to generate excel files / reports.
There are other (non-Java) possibilities: -- Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is Perl and works whereever Perl works, there is a sibbling Spreadsheet::ParseExcel too. Greg Warnes has built another xls2csv around this. -- Gretl (http://gretl.sf.net) has an add-on module for reading .xls that has been lifted from other Open Source projects; one could probably build something around the libole2 library from the Gnome project. > I would be interested in collaborating with anyone who has a serious > interest in building an R package for this purpose. I would second that, but I really have no spare capacity for more new projects. I'd try to help, though. Dirk -- The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown. -- From the pac(8) manual page ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
