[R] Reading Excel files...Error

[Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.]

If you need work-around, than you can always save excel file in csv format
and than read that. See 'read.csv' or 'read.csv2'. 

Jarek
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 Jarek Tuszynski, PhD.                           o / \ 
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Vivek Subramanian
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 5:28 AM
To: rhelp
Subject: [R] Reading Excel files...Error

hi,
i am using the RODBC package to read .xls files. now after i installed the
package and loaded the library and tried to read a file this is the error i
got.

>channel<-odbcConnect("D:/rstuff/1.xls")
Warning messages:
1: [RODBC] ERROR: state IM002, code 0, message [Microsoft][ODBC Driver
Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
2: ODBC connection failed in: odbcDriverConnect(st, case = case,
believeNRows = believeNRows)

please help me.

regards,
vivek

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