On Nov 7, 2012, at 2:58 PM, r wrote: > Dear list, > I have some .xls files that I need to read into R. I am able to do so > using read.xls in the gdata package, however the helper functions > sheetNames and sheetCount fail. This is the error: > > Unable to open file '~/SharedFolder/MyData/mydata.xls'. > Warning: running command ''/usr/bin/perl' > '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/gdata/perl/sheetCount.pl' > '~/SharedFolder/MyData/mydata.xls'' had status 2 > > Googling I found that the problem is caused by the use of the absolute > path ("~/SharedFolder/MyData/") instead of > "/home/r/SharedFolder/MyData/". I use the absolute path because I work > from different computer connected to a shared folder. > > This is the discussion I found: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11737906/path-specification-when-using-the-r-package-gdata > > Is there a way to solve this problem??
> path.expand("~/") [1] "/Users/davidwinsemius/" > > Best > Riccardo > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.