similar to: read.xls can't read some .xls files

I've suddenly started seeing a consistent problem with read.xls. No matter what xls file I try I always get an error message of this type: Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method, : Intermediate file '/var/folders/cb/vvshkpm90lx_y2n69qlyw4z40000gn/T//RtmpK50r4g/file546a2722.csv' missing! In addition: Warning message: running command

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

Hello eveRybody (and probably special regards to Gabor G....), I recently upgraded from R-2.9.2-win32 to R-10.1.0-win32, and I'm using Windows XP Professional 2002 with service pack 3 on a PC with IntelCore Duo CPU@ 3.00 GHz. Last time I used it (some weeks ago, before upgrading), one of my scripts (including the two lines cited below) used to run OK. When I ran it yesterday evening (after

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

I can use gdata to successfully read in the example Excel file, but not any other excel files. Why might this be the case? It seems that the problem has something to do with opening the database but no indication as to what the problem is. So i'm at a loss of how to fix it. > library(gdata) gdata: read.xls support for 'XLS' (Excel 97-2004) files ENABLED. gdata: read.xls support

library(xlsReadWrite) mydata<-read.xls("file path", header=TRUE) however if I change xls to csv it works just fine. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I have have also using the package gdata with the exact same error. Below is the error that pops up. Error in findPerl(verbose = verbose) : perl executable not found. Use perl= argument to specify the correct path. Error in

Hello: I get "Wide character in print" from trying read.xls("22_data.xls") in the gdata package, with "22_data.xls" downloaded from "Varieties_Country_A-E.xls" at "http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/": > library(gdata) > read.xls("22_data.xls") Wide character in print at

Dear all, I have a problem with the function read.xls from the gdata package, error message see below. Two examples: First, I try to read my data, which does not work; Secondly, I tried the example code/data with the Iris data, which worked Any idea? Thanks, Lars > path<-"I:/subProjects/bh/HPGD/" > > setwd(path) > > xls <- "Platten_Liste_090421.xls"

Dear R list, I am trying to read in .xls files. I have tried using package 'gdata', I get the following error. > dataset <- read.xls("June.xls") Wide character in print at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/gdata/perl/ xls2csv.pl line 262. Seems like this is a problem coming from Perl? I tried to install package 'xlsReadWrite', it

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

Release 1.11.2 of the gregmisc() package of functions is now available on CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/gregmisc.html for both Unix and Windows systems. The most notable enhancement provided by this release is: - read.xls(), a function to read Microsoft Excel files by translating them to csv files via the xls2csv.pl script has been added. I've also provided

Release 1.11.2 of the gregmisc() package of functions is now available on CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/gregmisc.html for both Unix and Windows systems. The most notable enhancement provided by this release is: - read.xls(), a function to read Microsoft Excel files by translating them to csv files via the xls2csv.pl script has been added. I've also provided

Frequently I need to convert a .xls to a .csv (for import into R) and I do this by opening the file in excel and saving it as a csv. I would rather do this using WinXP's context menu (right click the xls, choose "convert to csv") but I don't know of a utility that does this. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark

Hi Using R 2.10.1 on a mac os 10.6.2, I have have a problem with gdata package. When I use the command read.xls, I get this error-message: Erreur dans xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method, : Unable to read translated csv file '/var/folders/gb/gbzQ4sqTF-KK3D5m6v-IJE+++TI/-Tmp-//Rtmp3Hprw9/file10d63af1.csv'. Erreur dans file.exists(tfn) : argument 'file'

Sto imparando ora ad utilizzare R. Ho un problema: devo caricare i dati da un file xls creato da me, utilizzando la funzione "read.xls" produce il seguente errore: Errore in xls2csv(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., perl = perl) : Unable to read xls file 'indagineUSA.xls'. Errore in file.exists(tfn) : argomento 'file' non valido Cosa c'è che non va? La directory

Hi, I would like to some excel files with some worksheets. I tried this with the following R script: library(gdata) i<-1 rc<-0 while(rc != "try-error") { wksh<-try(read.xls("cluster-microarray-FW.xls",sheet=i,verbose=TRUE,perl="perl")) rc<-class(wksh) print(sprintf("------- i=%2d rc=%s ---------------",i,rc)) if (rc !=

Hi, i want to import data from .ods and .xls files in R on a linux system. Seems it was a faq in the past, but i found only solutions for Windows. Is there a handy solution for linux? The best would be something like mytab <-read.ods(...) Any hints? Thanks a lot for reading so far, -- Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>

Dear R gurus, particularly those of generous M$ tolerance and diverse gifts and knowledge! I have an interesting challenge that I will end up crunching in R involving service usage by patients. Maybe I can do all of it in R but I can't see how yet. My situation is that our IT Department can give me loads of XLS files about patients one of our services have seen. The are one per patient

I've created a Perl script that translates Microsoft Excel (.xls) files into comma-delimited text files (.csv) using the Perl Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module. Usage ----- perl xls2csv.pl <excel file> [<output file>] [<worksheet number>] Translate the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file contained in <excel file> into comma separated value format (CSV) and store in

Previously, I've posted queries about this, and thanks to postings and messages in response have recently had some success, to the extent that there is now a package called nlmrt on the R-forge project https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=395 for solving nonlinear least squares problems that include small or zero residual problems via a Marquardt method using a call that mirrors the nls()