[R] How to read an excel data into R?

Wensui Liu
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:38:23 -0000

Ling,

You might take a look at the function read.xls() in gdata library.

HTH.


On 6/22/05, Ling Jin <ljin at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know the easiest way to import excel data into R? I copied
> and pasted the excel data into a txt file, and tried read.table, but R
> reported that
>
> Error in read.table("data_support.txt", sep = " ",
header = T) :
>          more columns than column names
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ling
>
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