Thanks Gabor, David, and David for all of your help. I did get it to work with this code that I modified from the R Wiki from Gabor's original suggestion:
#### START OF CODE ################ library(RODBC) ### "setwd" Set the working directory ### setwd("C:/Documents and Settings/jfloren/My Documents/Test_R") ### Some examples of the Excel file names in this directory #### # C:/Documents and Settings/jfloren/My Documents/Test_R/MAP_2009 Round 2 2002 Soiltest 9-21-09 .xls # C:/Documents and Settings/jfloren/My Documents/Test_R/MAP_2009 Round 2 2006 Best Test 10-2-09.xls # C:/Documents and Settings/jfloren/My Documents/Test_R/MAP_2009 Round 2 4006 A&L Western 10-1-09.xls ## "list.files" List all the file names in this directory that are Excel files (*.xls extension) #### fname <- list.files(pattern=".\\.xls", full.names = FALSE, recursive = TRUE, ignore.case = TRUE) #### Count the number of Excel files in this directory #### z <- length(fname) ### Print the number of Excel files in this folder ### print(z) for (sp in 1:z) { channel <- odbcDriverConnect(paste("DRIVER=Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb); DBQ= C:/Documents and Settings/jfloren/My Documents/Test_R\\",fname[sp],"; ReadOnly=False",sep='')) sqlTables(channel) alldata <- sqlFetch(channel, "Paste Special") print(alldata) gdata = data.frame(alldata) write.table(gdata, file = "C:/Documents and Settings/jfloren/My Documents/Test_R/Test_Import_xls.txt", append = TRUE, quote = TRUE, sep = "\t", eol = "\n", na = "NA", dec = ".", row.names = FALSE, col.names = TRUE, qmethod = c("escape", "double")) odbcClose(channel) } #### END OF CODE ############# I can't tell you how glad I am to get this working. It will save me tons of drudge work. Thanks, Jerry Floren Minnesota Department of Agriculture -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Yet-another-question-about-importing-Excel-xls-files-tp1018699p1049793.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.