2010/7/30 rajibshibly <rajibshi...@yahoo.com>: > > I am trying to read an Excel file using the following: > a<-read.xls("mydata.xls", sheet=1) [snip] > Error in findPerl(verbose = verbose) : > perl executable not found. Use perl= argument to specify the correct path. > Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument
The 'read.xls' function in the the xlsReadWrite package (Win32 only) doesn't have external dependencies. Might be an option as well. Cheers, Hans-Peter ______________________________________________ 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.