On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Ian Jenkinson <ian.jenkin...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > I saw this about RODBC, but it seemed a complicated way of doing things, and > in any case it seems that to run RODBC you need Excel 2004 or higher, which > I would need to buy. > One beautiful thing about R and OOo is that they are excellent and they cost > nothing, so you don't have to buy, borrow or steal them.
read.xls in gdata does not require Excel and reads xls files directly on all R platforms. ______________________________________________ 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.