Thanks J! I was thinking about the url, download.file functions too
Just wanted to make sure that there wasn't something special for Excel. Thanks, Erin On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, J Toll <jct...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear R People: >> >> I have been using xlsReadWrite to read Excel files and am very pleased >> with it. Thank you xlsReadWrite People! >> >> My question is: is there a function, similar to get.hist.quote, to >> download Excel files from the web, please? > > If you just need to download then you could try download.file() from utils. > > Otherwise read.xls from gdata might work for you. It supports > "http://";, "https://";, and "ftp://"; URLS. > > HTH > > James > > > > >> Thanks, >> Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@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.
