On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Philipp Chapkovski <chapkov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for stupid question but is there any way to just download file (excel > file) from the url to the disk with a certain name? > Now it seems that I should open it (via read.xls) and then write it by > write.xls. But I am pretty sure it should be something much easier? >
read.xls in the gdata package can take the url of an Excel file and will read it into R. (It transparently downloads it into a temporary file and then reads it from there.) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
