Actually, I ran across something a moment ago. read.xls takes http files. It's in the gdata package. Make sure that you have perl on the path too.
Thanks, Erin On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- 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.
