Dear Spencer On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: > Doesn't he need a version of perl installed with a particular perl > package for read.xls to work properly? > I really don't know. I assume that, if the package was installed and could be loaded, the object 'read.xls' would be present in the environment along with the associated ?read.xls help page. It felt as if the original poster failed to load the package before trying to access the help pages. The question didn't pertain to the actual functionality of read.xls().
Best regards Liviu > Spencer > > > On 11/28/2010 10:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Stephen Liu<sati...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> ?read.xls >>> >>> I must run ??read.xls >>> >> Not if you >>> >>> library(gdata) >> >> first. Then >>> >>> ?read.xls >> >> should work. >> >> Regards >> Liviu >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Operating Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San José, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ 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.