> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tzsmile > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:30 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] a simple question of importing data > > > i just want to read data from Excel and i copied it and > pasted into a txt > file. > then i want to use "read.table" to read it. but however i > tried, it doesn't > work. > can someone help me? > data is attached. > thanks http://www.nabble.com/file/p16851853/weekly.txt weekly.txt > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/a-simple-question-of-importing-data-tp16 851853p16851853.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. >
Have you looked at the foreign package? It should help do what you want. Or you could use Excel to output a .csv and read that with read.table(). Hope this is helpful, Dan ______________________________________________ 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.