Or you could use the read.xls program in the gdata library that uses a perl script underneath.
Charles Danko wrote: > try: > var <- read.table("weekly.txt", sep="\t", header=TRUE) > > Charles > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM, tzsmile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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-tp16851853p16851853.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. >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.