[R] Importing an Excel file

Kevin Wang wangk at maths.anu.edu.au
Thu Jul 8 10:01:52 CEST 2004


Hi,

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Vito Ricci wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to use read.xls() function to import Excel
> data, but I've this error:
>
> Error in system(cmd, intern = !verbose) : perl not
> found
>
> What happens?

It means it cannot find Perl.  You need Perl installed (and in your Path)
in your system.

Kev

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