[R] reading excel into R

milton ruser
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:09:44 -0000

Dear Cheba

Please, install the package "xlsReadWrite"
I suppose that read.csv is to read csv files, not xls ones.

cheers

milton

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:19 AM, cheba meier
<cheba.meier@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am new R user and I am sure that this question has been asked quite often
> and I have also googled it and read about it! I understood that in order to
> read excel sheet into R you need to open it and saved it as csv or text, is
> this true? or you can use read.delim2 and read.csv2 to do this without the
> following error
>
> > dat <- read.csv2(file="C:\\Dokumente und
> Einstellungen\\Cheba\\Desktop\\Rtemp\\ Results2010.xls",header = TRUE)
> Warnmeldung:
> In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>  unvollständige letzte Zeile von readTableHeader gefunden in
'C:\\Dokumente
> und Einstellungen\\Cheba\\Desktop\\Rtemp\\ Results2010.xls'
> > dat
> [1] ÐÏ.à..
> <0 Zeilen> (oder row.names mit Länge 0)
>
> Thes same error I get when I use read.delim and demlim2!
>
> Is library(gdata) the solution?
>
> Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
>
> Regards,
> Cheba
>
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