Hello, everyone I wonder if it is possible to PHYSICALLY open an Excel file from R. The reason I ask is, I produce regularly an Excel file in R, and then I want to make it look good, so I have a VBA routine in another Excel file that works on the regular Excel file. This formatting file executes VBA code on open, so all I need to do is physically open it (no reading/writing at all). I wonder if that can be done from R, so that I do as little as possible manually. Thanks in advance for help! Regards, Sergey -- Simplicity is the last step of art./Bruce Lee Kniven sk?rpes bara mot stenen.
On 08.02.2010 13:48, Sergey Goriatchev wrote:> Hello, everyone > > I wonder if it is possible to PHYSICALLY open an Excel file from R. > The reason I ask is, I produce regularly an Excel file in R, and then > I want to make it look good, so I have a VBA routine in another Excel > file that works on the regular Excel file. > This formatting file executes VBA code on open, so all I need to do is > physically open it (no reading/writing at all). I wonder if that can > be done from R, so that I do as little as possible manually.If you are under Windows and Excel is installed properly, shell.exec("filename") should do the trick. Uwe Ligges> Thanks in advance for help! > Regards, > Sergey > -- > Simplicity is the last step of art./Bruce Lee > > Kniven sk?rpes bara mot stenen. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Try
shell('\"file.xls\"')
where 'file.xls' is the excel filename.
The escaped quotes (\") are not strictly necessary if the filename contains
no spaces, but they are essential if it does.
>>> Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com> 08/02/2010 12:48:20
>>>
Hello, everyone
I wonder if it is possible to PHYSICALLY open an Excel file from R.
The reason I ask is, I produce regularly an Excel file in R, and then
I want to make it look good, so I have a VBA routine in another Excel
file that works on the regular Excel file.
This formatting file executes VBA code on open, so all I need to do is
physically open it (no reading/writing at all). I wonder if that can
be done from R, so that I do as little as possible manually.
Thanks in advance for help!
Regards,
Sergey
--
Simplicity is the last step of art./Bruce Lee
Kniven sk?rpes bara mot stenen.
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