It appears you are using read.xls in gdata. In that case be sure you are using the latest version of gdata on CRAN since there was a problem with one older version. There is more info on read.xls in gdata here and also listed there are alternatives you can try: http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:12 AM, <mau...@alice.it> wrote: > I have attached a file downloaded from database mirWalk. > Apparently it is in XLS format (this is the extension of the downloaded file). > However, I cannot open it with OpenOffife spreadsheet program and Excel itself > cannot separate the columns as it does when a true XLS file is loaded. > > I tried to read the attached downloaded file through R function "read.xls" > and got the following message > >> read.xls("Prostatic_Neoplasm-miRNAs.Disease-GenesTargets.xls") > Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method, : > Unable to read translated csv file '/tmp/RtmpPIe3vo/file15d9580e.csv'. > Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument > > I have tried reading the file through "read.table" which has now been hanging > for > more than 15 minutes. > > Please, advice. > Thank you in advance. > Maura > > > e tutti i telefonini TIM! > Vai su > > ______________________________________________ > 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.