On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:58PM , Gabor Csardi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:51:35PM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >> Gabor Csardi wrote: >> Ok, but who would be insane enough to use Excel in Linux or Mac? :-)
The original reason for read.xls() was to allow a web application running computations through R to handle data in the format the _user_ preferred. Like it or not, most scientists store their experimental data in MS-Excel spreadsheets, and one needs to be able to handle them.... It turned out to be a lot easier to write a function for R to read in XLS data than to train our users to convert their data to .csv format. -G (author of the gdata package) ______________________________________________ [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.
