If you need work-around, than you can always save excel file in csv format and than read that. See 'read.csv' or 'read.csv2'.
Jarek ====================================================\======= Jarek Tuszynski, PhD. o / \ Science Applications International Corporation <\__,| (703) 676-4192 "> \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` \ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vivek Subramanian Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 5:28 AM To: rhelp Subject: [R] Reading Excel files...Error hi, i am using the RODBC package to read .xls files. now after i installed the package and loaded the library and tried to read a file this is the error i got. >channel<-odbcConnect("D:/rstuff/1.xls") Warning messages: 1: [RODBC] ERROR: state IM002, code 0, message [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified 2: ODBC connection failed in: odbcDriverConnect(st, case = case, believeNRows = believeNRows) please help me. regards, vivek ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html