Yes. Get it from here: http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Gábor Pozsgai <pozsg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you both. > Gabor, do I need perl to be installed onj my computer to use those functions? > > Gabor > > 2010/2/5 Kevin Wright <kw.s...@gmail.com>: >> I have a function to read xls files that tells me the name of the available >> sheets. See below. >> >> Kevin Wright >> >> >> read.xls = function (file, sheet, condition) >> { >> if (missing(file)) >> stop("No file specified.") >> if (!file.exists(file)) >> stop("File ", file, " does not exist in directory ", >> getwd()) >> if (missing(sheet)) >> stop("No sheet specified.") >> if (!require(RODBC, quietly = TRUE)) >> stop("The RODBC package is required.") >> channel = odbcConnectExcel(file) >> if (!RODBC:::odbcValidChannel(channel)) >> stop("first argument is not an open RODBC channel") >> tables <- sqlTables(channel) >> tables <- if (is.data.frame(tables)) >> tables[, "TABLE_NAME"] >> else "" >> tables <- gsub("\\$$", "", gsub("'", "", tables)) >> if (!(sheet %in% tables)) { >> odbcClose(channel) >> msg <- paste(paste("'", tables, "'", sep = ""), collapse = " ") >> stop("Couldn't find requested sheet.\n", " Available sheets are: ", >> msg) >> } >> qsheet <- paste("[", sheet, "$]", sep = "") >> if (missing(condition)) >> data <- sqlQuery(channel, paste("select * from", qsheet)) >> else data <- sqlQuery(channel, paste("select * from", qsheet, >> condition)) >> odbcClose(channel) >> if (length(grep("#", names(data))) > 0) >> cat("Caution: Column names may have had '.' changed to '#'.\n") >> cat("Caution: Be careful with mixed-type columns that begin with\n") >> cat(" some (15?) rows that are only numeric.\n") >> cat(" Use str() and summary() to check the import.\n") >> return(data) >> } >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Gábor Pozsgai <pozsg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I would like to count or list the names of the existing worksheets >>> within an .xls file. Any hints? >>> >>> Thaks, >>> >>> Gabor >>> >>> -- >>> Pozsgai Gábor >>> www.coleoptera.hu >>> www.photogabor.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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> > > > > -- > Pozsgai Gábor > www.coleoptera.hu > www.photogabor.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.