On 4/03/2009, at 2:38 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the
package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows
specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library
which is
available for Windows only) to natively read and write Excel files.
Thus, there is no package version available for Linux, or OSX for that
matter.
If you need to read Excel files under Linux, you could look at the
read.xls() function in the 'gdata' CRAN package. This package requires
that Perl be installed, as it calls a Perl routine (xls2csv) for
converting the Excel file to a CSV file, which can then be read
into R.
If you need to write Excel files under Linux, you can use a Perl
routine
that I had posted back in 2007:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-July/135968.html
and have updated since then to handle Unicode issues. I am attaching a
2k text file here with the updated routine.
For those needing to write *.xls files as well as read them, the
write.xls
function in the package dataframes2xls might be useful. I have no
actual
experience in using it, but.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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