Greg,
You are certainly welcome to use my Perl script as the basis for a
write.xls() function for gdata. You can even change the name of the
script to csv2xls.pl if you wish, for consistency with the existing
function.
If you might want to use the script largely 'as is', I won't have time
for a
Hi,
2007/7/8, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[snip]
There exists the xlsReadWrite package on CRAN by Hans-Peter Suter, which
is restricted to Windows, since it utilizes the non-FOSS MS Office API
to write the Excel formats.
The non-FOSS API is not the problem(#) but its implementation is:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:42 +0300, Hans-Peter wrote:
Hi,
2007/7/8, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[snip]
There exists the xlsReadWrite package on CRAN by Hans-Peter Suter, which
is restricted to Windows, since it utilizes the non-FOSS MS Office API
to write the Excel formats.
The
Note that there already is a function, read.xls, in gdata that uses Perl.
On 7/9/07, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:42 +0300, Hans-Peter wrote:
Hi,
2007/7/8, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[snip]
There exists the xlsReadWrite package on CRAN by
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Note that there already is a function, read.xls, in gdata that uses Perl.
Note that Marc talked about *writing* in his original message.
Uwe Ligges
On 7/9/07, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:42 +0300, Hans-Peter wrote:
Hi,
Since I wrote the xls2csv.pl and read.xls() code for gdata, a perl
module for writing MS-Excel files has come on the scene. I don't
have the time at the moment to create an csv2xls.pl file, but it
should be straightforward, and I would gladly add it to the gdata
package.
-G
On Jul 9,
Hi all,
There have been quite a few threads in the recent months pertaining to
the ability to directly write native Excel (.xls) files from R. For
example, exporting R matrices and/or data frames to an Excel file, with
perhaps the ability to create multiple tabs (worksheets) within a single
file,
