On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:09 AM, mails <mails00...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I used read.xlsx to read in Excel files but for large files it turned out to > be not very efficient. > For that reason I use a programme which writes each sheet in an Excel file > into tab-delim txt files.
Note that that is how read.xls in the gdata package works - it uses a perl program to convert the spreadsheet to a text file and then reads in the text file. -- 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.
