John C Frain wrote: > > To avoid complications, save your file as comma separated and use one > of the instructions for reading delimited files. If you are using a > comma as a decimal point you are probably using ; as a separator. If > this is so use read.csv2. Please see the help files for read.table. > I think the problem is that we _can't_ alter or write the excel file, or it would be unpractical to do it (say, this xls file is generated by someone else once a day, and we must use it).
I usually save the excel file to plain text, and then read it - but this is not the best solution when the file keeps changing. Alberto Monteiro ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
