Re: [R] Need to read an Excel File

2013-03-29 Thread Shane Carey
I use XlsReadWrite package, its good. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Jim Holtman wrote: > I have found that the easiest way to read/write Excel files is to use the > XLConnect package. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 28, 2013, at 15:54, Henry Njovu wrote: > > > To be able to import excel-fi

Re: [R] Need to read an Excel File

2013-03-29 Thread Jim Holtman
I have found that the easiest way to read/write Excel files is to use the XLConnect package. Sent from my iPad On Mar 28, 2013, at 15:54, Henry Njovu wrote: > To be able to import excel-files into R you also need to download Perl from > http://www.perl.org/. From this link you will have to dow

Re: [R] Need to read an Excel File

2013-03-28 Thread Henry Njovu
To be able to import excel-files into R you also need to download Perl from http://www.perl.org/. From this link you will have to downlaod a suitable Strawberry based on the computer you use (Mac/Window). Once installed you should be able to move on. -- View this message in context: http://r.7

Re: [R] Need to read an Excel File

2010-07-31 Thread Hans-Peter Suter
2010/7/30 rajibshibly : > > I am trying to read an Excel file using the following: > a<-read.xls("mydata.xls", sheet=1) [snip] > Error in findPerl(verbose = verbose) : >  perl executable not found. Use perl= argument to specify the correct path. > Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument

Re: [R] Need to read an Excel File

2010-07-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:39 AM, rajibshibly wrote: > > I am trying to read an Excel file using the following: > a<-read.xls("mydata.xls", sheet=1) > > The file mydata.xls is stored in the working directory. However I am getting > the following error. Can anyone help. > > Error in findPerl(verbose

[R] Need to read an Excel File

2010-07-30 Thread rajibshibly
I am trying to read an Excel file using the following: a<-read.xls("mydata.xls", sheet=1) The file mydata.xls is stored in the working directory. However I am getting the following error. Can anyone help. Error in findPerl(verbose = verbose) : perl executable not found. Use perl= argument to