Re: [R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

2008-03-11 Thread Ajay Shah
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:57:49AM +0100, Hans-Peter wrote: > > > > I looked at the package (it's > > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html) but > > it's windows only. So no joy yet. > > which platform would you need it? Mac OS X and Linux. -- Ajay Shah

Re: [R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

2008-03-11 Thread Hans-Peter
> > I looked at the package (it's > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html) but > it's windows only. So no joy yet. which platform would you need it? Regards, Hans-Peter [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r

Re: [R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

2008-03-10 Thread Gregory Warnes
Hello Ajay, I'm the author of the gdata package. If you send me a copy of an .XLS file that doesn't work with read.xls(), I'll see about fixing the code. -Greg On Mar 7, 2008, at 6:17AM , Ajay Shah wrote: > 1. I have used gdata::read.xls() with much happiness. But every now >and the

Re: [R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

2008-03-10 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Ajay Shah > > 1: Why not try the XLSReadWrite package that can do it > natively without > > using Perl to convert to CSV first? > > I looked at the package (it's > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html) but > it's windows only. So no joy yet. > > > 2: There seems

Re: [R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

2008-03-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
With regards to #1 you could also check out http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/04/25674.html On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Ajay Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. I have used gdata::read.xls() with much happiness. But every now > and then it breaks. I have not, as yet, been able to co

Re: [R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

2008-03-10 Thread Ajay Shah
> 1: Why not try the XLSReadWrite package that can do it natively without > using Perl to convert to CSV first? I looked at the package (it's http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html) but it's windows only. So no joy yet. > 2: There seems to be an Ooo extension that sounds s

Re: [R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

2008-03-10 Thread Liaw, Andy
I don't have answer to either of your questions, just some info: 1: Why not try the XLSReadWrite package that can do it natively without using Perl to convert to CSV first? 2: There seems to be an Ooo extension that sounds similar to R-Excel (connecting R to Calc). Not sure if that helps you any