Hi Peter,
The ssconvert tool (part of gnumeric) is very good at converting spreadsheets to
csv-files.
There is a wrapper in the "gnumeric" package on cran.
Cheers,
Thomas
> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 09:08:50 +0100
> From: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> To: Peter Maclean <pmaclean2011 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] Importing odf file into R
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> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Peter Maclean <pmaclean2011 at
yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Anyone aware of a package or technique to import odf data file into R,
I
> will appreciate his/her help.
>
> A quick scan of R-help points me here:
>
> http://www.omegahat.org/ROpenOffice/
>
> Reports of that working (or not) would be appreciated - I've not tried
it.
>
> Alternatively, there's python code for reading ODF so you could
> interface to that in a number of ways.
>
> Barry
