Part of my problem has to do with getting through the corporate firewall to access the other program I have to download to use it. I just tried today and this is what I got:
> xls.getshlib() Loading required package: tools --- xls.getshlib running... --- - download.file from 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2602516/swissrpkg/bin/win32/shlib/xlsReadWrite_1.5.4_dll.zip' (timeout: 60) Error in copyOrDownload(url) : downloading 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2602516/swissrpkg/bin/win32/shlib/xlsReadWrite_1.5.4_dll.zip' to 'C:\DOCUME~1\kon9407\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpQR6rWi/xlsReadWrite.zip' failed In addition: Warning message: In download.file(url, fpzip.temp, method = "internal", quiet = TRUE, : cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit 1: xls.getshlib() 2: copyOrDownload(url) I think when I was using it in the past, I had some problem with writing to multiple output sheets so I could create tabs on the workbook, but not really sure what was happening at the time. I have had better luck with XLConnect in creating tabbed workbooks. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Hans-Peter Suter <gcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim, > > 2011/10/15 jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com>: >> You might also want to consider the XLConnect package. I have had >> better luck reading/writing Excel files than with xlsReadWrite. > > XLConnect looks good but - as the xlsReadWrite author and planing to > release a xlsx/64 bit successor - I'd be interested to learn what you > mean with "better luck reading/writing". Thanks a lot and > > Cheers, > Hans-Peter > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.
