You might try the readxl package - it's only available on github but it
reads both xlsx and xls. All going well, it should be on its way to CRAN
next week.
Hadley
On Friday, April 3, 2015, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am trying to open excel files using the gdata package. I can do that
> using a .xls file, but the same file, containing the same data,
> formatted in .xlsx gives error (R does not recognize the pattern from
> where to start reading the data).
> Doen anybody knows whether it is possible to read .xlslx with this package?
> Am I missing another package to implement the reading of the .xlsx?
> Thank you
> Luigi
>
> PS: this is the error I get:
> > my.file <- "array.xlsx"
> > my.data<-read.xls(
> + my.file,
> + sheet="sheet x",
> + verbose=FALSE,
> + pattern="row name",
> + na.strings=c("NA","#DIV/0!"),
> + method="tab",
> + perl="perl"
> + )
> > Warning message:
> In read.xls(my.file, sheet = "sheet x", verbose = FALSE, :
> pattern not found
>
>
> The verbose version runs like this:
> “array.xlsx”
> to tab file
> “/tmp/Rtmp2tAjzz/filef06102dd018.tab”
> ...
>
> Executing ' '/usr/bin/perl'
> '/home/gigiux/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/gdata/perl/xls2tab.pl'
> 'array.xlsx' '/tmp/Rtmp2tAjzz/filef06102dd018.tab' 'sheet x' '...
>
> Loading 'array.xlsx'...
> Done.
>
> Orignal Filename: array.xlsx
> Number of Sheets: 2
>
> Writing sheet 'sheet x' to file '/tmp/Rtmp2tAjzz/filef06102dd018.tab'
> Minrow=31 Maxrow=17310 Mincol=0 Maxcol=4
> (Ignored 0 blank lines.)
>
> 0
>
> Done.
>
> Searching for lines tfntaining pattern row name ...
> Warning message:
> In read.xls(my.file, sheet = "sheet x", verbose = TRUE, :
> pattern not found
> >
>
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