[R] there is no "xls" reader in R?

[Johnsons]

I have used the following successfully:

xls = odbcConnectExcel(fname)
Rawdata.temp = sqlQuery( chan, "select * from [sheet1$]", max=2800 )
close(xls)

Presuming your data is in the Excel tab "sheet1".

Of course, this assumes that column headers are in the first row.

Greg Johnson

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: roger bos [mailto:roger.bos at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:14 AM
> To: Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
> Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] there is no "xls" reader in R?
> 
> I like to use the RODBC package for doing this.  Here is my 
> code sample:
> 
>         xls <-  odbcConnectExcel(fname)
>         rawdata.temp <-  sqlFetch(xls, "rawdata", max=2800)
>         close(xls)
> 
> fname is the full path to the file and "rawdata" is the name 
> of the excel sheet I want to import.  I tried one other 
> approach (I think it was read.xls()) and that approach used 
> perl scripts to read in the xls file and was very slow.  
> RODBC is very fast and has always worked great for me.  
> Haven't tried any of the other ways mentioned.
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/20/06, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang <Kevin.Wang at maths.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > Have a look at the read.xls() in gdata package.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > Michael wrote:
> > > Currently I have to convert all my "xls" into "csv" before I can 
> > > read it
> > in
> > > and process the excel data in R...
> > >
> > > Is there a way to directly read in "xls" data?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
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