[R] Loading Excel file into Limma

[ahimsa campos arceiz]

well, I don't know anything about the limma package and I might be 
misunderstanding your apparently simple question

What I do for excel files is the following:
1. I save a copy of the file as .csv (comma separated values) in the 
working directory. This format allows you work perfectly with the file in 
excel.
2. open in R using:

 > read.csv("filename.csv")

Hope it helps



At 12:48 12/01/2006, you wrote:
>Dear mailing group,
>
>   This is my first time here. Glad to have this resource!
>
>   I am currently trying to load an Excel file into R (limma package loaded)
>using the source(*name of directory*) command, but it cannot open the file.
>I renamed the file as .R and .RData, to no avail. The Excel data contains
>one gene name per row and about 100 data points per gene (columns).
>
>   I am only used to loading preprepared microarray data with all the t's
>crossed and i's dotted, with the read.maimages command. Can anyone help me
>out with this silly-sounding "challenge"?
>
>   Sincerely - in the truest sense -
>
>Norman Goodacre
>
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