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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

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

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

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

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"

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 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 !=

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

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

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>

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

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

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 >

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

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

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

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, 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'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