I've suddenly started seeing a consistent problem with read.xls. No matter what xls file I try I always get an error message of this type:
Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method, : Intermediate file '/var/folders/cb/vvshkpm90lx_y2n69qlyw4z40000gn/T//RtmpK50r4g/file546a2722.csv' missing! In addition: Warning message: running command '"/usr/bin/perl" "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/gdata/perl/xls2csv.pl" "/Users/peter/dev/R/telenor pricelists/ild_price_processor/ILD priser 2011.10.01.xls" "/var/folders/cb/vvshkpm90lx_y2n69qlyw4z40000gn/T//RtmpK50r4g/file546a2722.csv" "1"' had status 255 Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument Error parsing file '/Users/peter/dev/R/telenor pricelists/ild_price_processor/ILD priser 2011.10.01.xls'. E.g. using this code: > fn = file.choose() > read.xls(fn) With many different .xls files, including ones I have read with read.xls in the past. When I try running the xls2csv perl script (which read.xls depends on) directly from the command line I get the following error message: $ perl xls2csv.pl ~/Downloads/900numre.xls ~/Downloads/900numre.csv 1 Loading '/Users/peter/Downloads/900numre.xls'... Error parsing file '/Users/peter/Downloads/900numre.xls'. So it's pretty obvious the perl script part has broken down. The frustrating things is that this worked perfectly fine until today, so I (or my system) has clearly unknowingly changed some part of the configuration (I'm on OS X). Any ideas? Rgds, Peter -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-xls-gdata-problem-tp3792792p3792792.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
