[R] Reading Excel files...Error

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. <JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI <at> saic.com> writes:
> 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'. 

Or use read.xls() from Greg's gdata package on CRAN.  Gdata "embeds" Perl
code for reading xls files. Works on Linux, Windoze, ... provided Perl is 
installed.

Hth, Dirk