similar to: Weird read.xls behavior

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

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

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 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

Hello there, In gdata package, read.xls is to be used for reading excel data (from windows). The following is my code:('C:/session/sampledata.xls' is where the file is stored) data1<-read.xls('C:/session/sampledata.xls',sheet=1) and I got the following error message: Error in system(cmd, intern = !verbose) : perl not found Could you please tell me what I have done wrong and

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

I'm an R newbie and had a question about the read.xls function. I've heard that this is often not a reliable function to use for importing data. However, I have created numerous xls files which contain information about voter turnout and macroeconomic indicators in India. I'm writing a paper on the relationship between economic growth and voter turnout. This is the command I use:

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

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 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

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,

I am woking on Windows and using read.xls to read Excel.xls file. But it needs to install perl on my machine first, and then give the following until it can work: read.xls(file,sheet=i,perl="E:\\Perl\\bin\\bin\\perl.exe"); I am wondering if there is other way to read Excel.xls file without needing do this? jlm [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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 everybody I have a large number of Excel speadsheets that I want to merge into one R dataframe to process. I can read them one by one with read.xls but I really need a function to read a whole directory at once and merge the columns with the same name into a single dataframe. here is what I have thus far (on Mac OS X 10.5.2. for R 2.8.0): # Define the directory where the data is

I found a curious bug in read.xls. I don't know if it's reproducible. It's like this: suppose I do a read.xls in a spreadsheet. A column begins with a number. Then, any strings below it will be rendered as NA. If the column begins with a string, then it will be rendered correctly. Alberto Monteiro

Dear all, I cannot reading a .xlsm file using read.xls. I executed: read.xls("resultados.xlsm", colNames = TRUE, sheet = 1, type = "data.frame", from = 1, rowNames = NA, colClasses = "character", checkNames = TRUE, dateTime = "numeric", naStrings = NA, stringsAsFactors = F) Error: Call("ReadXls", file, colNames, sheet, type, from, rowNames, :

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

Hallo, I would like to use to read.xls function from the gdata package to read data from Microsoft Excel files but I experienced a problem: For example I used the following code: testfile<-read.xls("/home/.../wsjecon0603.xls", #file path header=F, dec=",", na.strings="n.a.", skip=5, sheet=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

Buenas tardes usuarios de R. Estoy tratando de leer un archivo excel con read.xls usando la siguiente sentencia: read.xls("resultados.xlsm", colNames = TRUE, sheet = 1, type = "data.frame", from = 1, rowNames = NA, colClasses = "character", checkNames = TRUE, dateTime = "numeric", naStrings = NA, stringsAsFactors = F) Pero me da el siguiente error: Error