Re: [R] reading xls files using read.xls and xlsReadWrite

I don't know much about gdata, but I can tell you that there is still no version of xlsReadWrite on Mac (unfortunately). xlsx works well, though, on both Mac and Windows. HTH, Ivan -- Ivan CALANDRA Université de Bourgogne UMR CNRS/uB 6282 Biogéosciences 6 Boulevard Gabriel 21000 Dijon, FRANCE

[R] reading xls files using read.xls and xlsReadWrite

Dear R list, I am trying to read in .xls files. I have tried using package 'gdata', I get the following error. > dataset <- read.xls("June.xls") Wide character in print at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/gdata/perl/ xls2csv.pl line 262. Seems like this is a proble