Kiran, One, not very elegant way, to solve your problem is to first save the Excel spreadsheet as a CSV file (open the Excel file in Excel and the use file->save as CSV, i.e. xxx.CSV) and then use read.csv() John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) >>> "venkata kirankumar" <kiran4u2...@gmail.com> 1/16/2009 4:32 AM >>> Hi all, I tried to read data from Excel spread sheet with using read.csv(file.choose()) and read.delim(file.choose()) but its showing " *ÐÏ.à.*." and also i tried with read.table(file.choose()) then its showing " * V1 1 ÐÏ\021ࡱ* " can any one suggest how to read data from Excel Spread sheet thanks & regards; kiran [[alternative HTML version deleted]] Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} ______________________________________________ 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.