[R] read file of EXCEL format

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please see the 'R Data Import/Export Manual' which ships with every copy 
of R.

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, XinMeng wrote:

> Hello sir:
>
> How can I read data file of EXCEL format from disk("d:\\data.XLS" for example)?
>
> I can only read data file of .txt format
> read.delim("d:\\data.txt",header=T,as.is=T),but only EXCEL format is available at present.

> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

PLEASE do!


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