[R] Need to read an Excel File

2010-07-30 Thread rajibshibly

I am trying to read an Excel file using the following:
a-read.xls(mydata.xls, sheet=1)

The file mydata.xls is stored in the working directory. However I am getting
the following error. Can anyone help.

Error in findPerl(verbose = verbose) : 
  perl executable not found. Use perl= argument to specify the correct path.
Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument

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[R] Ouput several lines of cat

2010-07-30 Thread rajibshibly

Hello,
I am brand new to R. I need to know how to output the contents of cat
function into a text file. The cat is used to output several lines of string
in the following format:
X XXX
X XX.XX 
-  ( XX.XX XXX ) 

I need to get the output of all these lines into a text file.
I tried to put a file name in the cat function. However the output file only
displays single line output. 
Thanks

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