On 3 March 2009 at 07:38, Marc Schwartz wrote: | You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the | package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows | specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library which is | available for Windows only) to natively read and write Excel files. | Thus, there is no package version available for Linux, or OSX for that | matter. | | If you need to read Excel files under Linux, you could look at the | read.xls() function in the 'gdata' CRAN package. This package requires | that Perl be installed, as it calls a Perl routine (xls2csv) for | converting the Excel file to a CSV file, which can then be read into R.
Also, 'sudo apt-get install r-cran-gdata' installs that package on Ubuntu. The package contains the Perl code. Years ago, I also added the appropriate Perl modules to read and write xls files to Debian, these are still available in Ubuntu so one could write a matching write.xls and contribute it back to the gdata package. Finally, note that there is an entire R manual devoted to Data Import questions. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ 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.
