Re: [R] reading excel into R

2010-04-01 Thread Ravi Kulkarni
Use R Commander to do this. R Commander is a R package that offers a GUI for R. It can be downloaded like any other R package. If you use R Commander, there is a menu option where you specify that you want to read an Excel file (you can also read text, SPSS, Minitab, Stata, Access... files). It i

Re: [R] reading excel into R

2010-04-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
See this link for a number of alternatives: http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:19 AM, cheba meier wrote: > Dear all, > > I am new R user and I am sure that this question has been asked quite often > and I have also googled it and read about it!

Re: [R] reading excel into R

2010-04-01 Thread milton ruser
Dear Cheba Please, install the package "xlsReadWrite" I suppose that read.csv is to read csv files, not xls ones. cheers milton On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:19 AM, cheba meier wrote: > Dear all, > > I am new R user and I am sure that this question has been asked quite often > and I have also googl

[R] reading excel into R

2010-04-01 Thread cheba meier
Dear all, I am new R user and I am sure that this question has been asked quite often and I have also googled it and read about it! I understood that in order to read excel sheet into R you need to open it and saved it as csv or text, is this true? or you can use read.delim2 and read.csv2 to do th