R help - Mar 2012 - downloading Excel files

Dear R People:

I have been using xlsReadWrite to read Excel files and am very pleased
with it.  Thank you xlsReadWrite People!

My question is:  is there a function, similar to get.hist.quote, to
download Excel files from the web, please?

Thanks,
Erin


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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> I have been using xlsReadWrite to read Excel files and am very pleased
> with it. ?Thank you xlsReadWrite People!
>
> My question is: ?is there a function, similar to get.hist.quote, to
> download Excel files from the web, please?
If you just need to download then you could try download.file() from utils.

Otherwise read.xls from gdata might work for you. It supports
"http://", "https://", and "ftp://" URLS.

HTH

James



> Thanks,
> Erin