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

Petr Pikal
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:27:47 -0000

On 22 Jun 2005 at 16:46, Ling Jin 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
>

Or simply

Open Excell file
Decide what you want to copy and put it to clipboard by Ctrl-C
In R issue

temp1<-read.delim("clipboard")

and you have your data in temp1

HTH
Petr





> Thanks!
>
> Ling
>
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