Gabor's answer explains the error perfectly. You might want to look at the xlsx
package as well as the RODBC package if you're on Windows. RODBC is really
fast, if you can use it.
Abhijit
On Jun 23, 2011, at 2:00 PM, wwreith <reith_will...@bah.com> wrote:
> library(xlsReadWrite)
> mydata<-read.xls("file path", header=TRUE)
>
> however if I change xls to csv it works just fine. Any ideas what I'm doing
> wrong? I have have also using the package gdata with the exact same error.
>
> Below is the error that pops up.
>
> 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
>
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