R help - Jul 2007 - create a matrix from an excel file?

how do you create a matrix from an excel file read into R by the command
read.delim?

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>>>>> "TS" == Tavpritesh Sethi <tavpritesh at
gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:59:03 +0530 writes:
    TS> how do you create a matrix from an excel file read into
    TS> R by the command read.delim?

data.matrix(.)   {is typical a bit more useful than
as.matrix(.) }