On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:51:35PM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Gabor Csardi wrote: > > > > There is also a read.xls command in package gdata, it seems that it uses > > a perl script called 'xls2csv'. I've have no idea how good this is, > > never tried it. > > > > Btw, xlsReadWrite is Windows-only, so you can use it only if > > you use windows. > > > Ok, but who would be insane enough to use Excel in Linux or Mac? :-)
Personally i don't use excel on anything, but receive data in Excel file occasionally. I opened them in openoffice.org and saved them in csv, but just learned that there are quicker solutions, directly from R. So this is useful piece of information. Perhaps not _very_ useful. But you can't deny it's information. :) Gabor > Alberto Monteiro > -- Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MTA RMKI, ELTE TTK ______________________________________________ [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.
