The assertion that you need administrator privileges to install packages is
false. You can install them into a directory under your Documents directory for
your own use. You only need a administrator privileges to modify the packages
located in the software installation directory.
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Charles Determan Jr <deter...@umn.edu> wrote:
>If there isn't multiple sheets you can use the 'gdata' package and
>read.xls().
>
>Otherwise you could re-save the file as a csv file and load that file
>with
>read.csv() assuming not multiple sheets again which a csv cannot
>contain.
>
>Regards,
>Charles
>
>
>On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Charles Thuo <tcmui...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> how can one read data from MSEXcel into R especially in a case where
>one
>> does not have administrator rights to install additional packages. In
>short
>> how to read data from MSExcel into R with base packages only.
>>
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