Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread Rolf Turner
On 4/03/2009, at 2:38 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library which is available for Windows only) to nat

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread Hans-Peter Suter
2009/3/2 Prof Brian Ripley : > The CRAN Windows ones. It is a windows-only package, see > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html > (incidentally to you: it seems no longer maintained and does not build under > R-devel on Windows, see > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread reverend33
Thanks a lot for all your answers. Indeed, i hadn't understood the previous answers. I just downloaded the gdata package and it works perfectly now. Thanks again. Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > If your purpose is to read Excel spreadsheets on Linux read.xls in the > gdata > packages can do t

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 3 March 2009 at 07:38, Marc Schwartz wrote: | You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the | package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows | specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library which is | available for Windows only) to n

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread Marc Schwartz
You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library which is available for Windows only) to natively read and write Excel files. Thus, there is no pa

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
If your purpose is to read Excel spreadsheets on Linux read.xls in the gdata packages can do that. It uses perl software underneath which is portable across systems. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:38 AM, reverend33 wrote: > > I'm sorry, maybe i didn't explain clearly: i'm trying to install xlsReadWrit

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread Ben Bolker
reverend33 wrote: > > I'm sorry, maybe i didn't explain clearly: i'm trying to install > xlsReadWrite on a Linux-type OS (Ubuntu)... > I think you didn't understand the answers: the package is only available under Windows. cheers Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-03 Thread reverend33
I'm sorry, maybe i didn't explain clearly: i'm trying to install xlsReadWrite on a Linux-type OS (Ubuntu)... Uwe Ligges-3 wrote: > > > > reverend33 wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install R on Ubuntu. >> I succeeded at installing the r-recommended package that is present in >> the >> sy

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, reverend33 wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install R on Ubuntu. I succeeded at installing the r-recommended package that is present in the synaptics, but i can't find the xlsReadWrite package in the repositories included in my synaptics manager. Does anybody know a liable reposito

Re: [R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
reverend33 wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install R on Ubuntu. I succeeded at installing the r-recommended package that is present in the synaptics, but i can't find the xlsReadWrite package in the repositories included in my synaptics manager. Does anybody know a liable repository in which this pac

[R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

2009-03-02 Thread reverend33
Hi, I'm trying to install R on Ubuntu. I succeeded at installing the r-recommended package that is present in the synaptics, but i can't find the xlsReadWrite package in the repositories included in my synaptics manager. Does anybody know a liable repository in which this package is present. Tha