[R] spreadsheet data import

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, [windows-1252] Tomás Revilla wrote:

> Hi colleages!
>
> I want to import data from ms-excel and other spreadsheet formats
(lotus, etc). Does exist any way to do it within
> R?

There exist several ways, and R has a manual `R Data Import/Export' to
explain them to you.  Since you haven't even told us what OS you are
using, it is hard to be more specific.  On Windows (and you mailed in a
Windows character set), RODBC can read directly from the spreadsheet.

> The main problem is that many spreadsheet data use comma as decimal
separator and not the point as needed in R
> (and many software for Linux), so importing data first as a tab separated
values does not solve this problem.

That's not correct.  Look at the manual, and functions read.delim2 and
read.csv2.

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