Since your target is a spreadsheet on Windows, consider writing directly to the spreadsheet. Use either the package xlsReadWrite or the RExcel interface which allows you to embed R functions inside Excel cells. Look at the main RExcel/rcom site http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/rcom/ and consider joining the mailing list there.
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