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1. I have used gdata::read.xls() with much happiness. But every now and then it breaks. I have not, as yet, been able to construct a mental model about the class of .xls files for which it works. Does someone have a simple rule for predicting the circumstances under which it will work? 2. Just like there is a read.xls(), it'd be great if we have a read.ods() which directly

Hi folks, Win 7 64 bit R 32 bit > install.packages("gregmisc") Installing package(s) into ‘C:\Users\satimiswin764\Documents/R/win-library/2.12’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- also installing the dependency ‘gmodels’ trying URL 'http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/windows/contrib/2.12/gmodels_2.15.0.zip' Content type

Hi folks, OS - Ubuntu 10.04 On R I create a datafile named "data". I can evoke it on R with; > data On R Commander Data -> Active data set -> Select active data set -> (data) OK only one data set there "data" -> View data set I can read it -> Edit data set showing 25 rows of data. Clicking the box shows a thick border around it. But I couldn't

I remember in one slide of Prof. Ripley's presentation overhead, he said the most popular data analysis software is excel. So is there any resource or tutorial on this topic? Thank you so much!

Dear List, I am trying to solve a problem: I have approximately 100 Excel spreadsheets each with approximately 4 sheet each that I would like to download and import in R for analysis. Unfortunately i realized (i also sent an email to the author or xlsReadWrite() ) that the read.xls() doesn't allow to import the file in R from internet. Here it is the the code:

Hi all: I wanna know how to expoort ".xls" file. And in the exported ".xls" file, how to set different cells with different color? Thanks a lot! My best. ------------------------------ ******************************************* Xin Meng Capitalbio Corporation National Engineering Research Center for Beijing Biochip Technology BioPharma-informatics & Software

I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file into R using RODBC. I have obtained and installed ODBC and the RODBC package, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about it. Can anyone give me a simple recipe? I have an excel file on cdrom, say: /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls I have started R and loaded

Hi folks, Win 7 64bit R 2.12.0 32bit Problem in reading Excel spreadsheets (the text file, research_databaseI.xls, was download on Internet) > data=odbcConnectExcel(file.choose()) > sqlTables(data) TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM 1 C:\\Users\\satimiswin764\\Documents\\research_databaseI <NA> 2

Can anyone help me how to read xls file into R. I have tried following library(gdata) xlsfile <- file.path(.path.package('gdata'),'xls','iris.xls') read.xls(xlsfile) I got following error: Converting xls file to csv file... Error in system(cmd, intern = !verbose) : perl not found Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument Question *1) What is the way

Hi, I encountered a problem of not being able to read in an excel spreadsheet using read.xls() in the xlsReadWrite package. can anyone help? Here is an example code write.xls(matrix(1:9,nrow=3),"ttt.xls") read.xls("ttt.xls") Error in read.xls("ttt.xls") : Unexpected error. Message: Can't find the file "ttt.xls" The "ttt.xls" file was

Hi R users: I am using RODBC to create some new ".xls" files each with several sheets (about 100) with sqlSave() from a data.frame inside R without any problem, but on windows XP platform. I would like to know if it is posible to make a similar solution on linux with openoffice? RODBC work only (for the moment) with ".xls" on windows, via the ODBC driver. Is it posible to

Hi, I am having problem with the read.xls function. I am trying to read a .xls file but it's giving me error. > read.xls("XXX.xls") Error parsing file 'XXX.xls'. Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method, : Intermediate file '/tmp/Rtmp5QQjSI/file1665315c.csv' missing! In addition: Warning message: running command

I have attached a file downloaded from database mirWalk. Apparently it is in XLS format (this is the extension of the downloaded file). However, I cannot open it with OpenOffife spreadsheet program and Excel itself cannot separate the columns as it does when a true XLS file is loaded. I tried to read the attached downloaded file through R function "read.xls" and got the following

Hi, i'm using read.xls, and it counts more rows in my Excel than I really have. i've used both: especie26 <- read.xls("especie26cargar.xls") datos26 <- read.xls("especie26cargar.xls", header = TRUE, as.is = FALSE, na.strings = "NA", skip = 0, check.names = TRUE, fill = FALSE, strip.white = FALSE, blank.lines.skip = TRUE) when i

Dear All, When I use read.xls() in gdata package to read xls files, I noticed an issue and couldn't find any solutions after I serched all previous posts. In the excel file, the number value, for example, is actually 2.3456789 but formatted as 2.3 (Format Cells ---> Decimal places:1). After I use read.xls() to import the excel file, I found that, in R, this number is read as the formatted

I am using read.xls command from the gdata package. I get the following error when I try to read a work sheet from an excel sheet. Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method, : Intermediate file 'C:\Tmp\RtmpYvLnAu\file7f06650f.csv' missing! In addition: Warning message: running command '"C:\Apps\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Program

Hi all, I read data from *.xls file and i did some caliculations on that data and now i have to create a column in the same .xls file and i have to insert the data in to the consicutive rows related to the previous data i tried it with *write.xls() *but the thing is it deleted all the columns previously presented in that file and it created a column and inserted data can any one suggest what to do

Using gdata on windows and im having trouble to retrieve an excel file from a folder on my computer. This is my dummy: R > download.file("http://people.su.se/~lundh/data/cpi_kpix.rda", + "cpi_kpix.rda") R > URL <- "http://people.su.se/" R > PATH <- "~lundh/data/" R > FILE <- "cpi_kpix.rda" R >

Hello everyone, What is the simplest, most RELIABLE way to import data from MS EXCEL (.xls) format to R? In the past I have used the read.xls() function from the xlsReadWrite package, however, I have been wrestling with it all afternoon long with no success. I continue to receive the following error message: > {widge<-read.xls("F:\\Classes\\Z1.Data\\stat.3010\\WidgeOne.xls", +

Hi, I'm trying to read several Excel sheets from an Excel file into a list. I'm using read.xls from package 'gdata'. I would like to know how I can check the number of sheets before the loop (in the example below) so that I could adjust the loop counter? Any suggestions? DF.list <- list() for (i in 1:4) { DF.list[[i]] <- read.xls("sample_file.xls", sheet=i,