[R] importing excel-file

[Alberto Monteiro]

Gabor Csardi wrote:
>
> There is also a read.xls command in package gdata, it seems that it uses
> a perl script called 'xls2csv'. I've have no idea how good this is,
> never tried it.
> 
> Btw, xlsReadWrite is Windows-only, so you can use it only if 
> you use windows.
> 
Ok, but who would be insane enough to use Excel in Linux or Mac? :-)

Alberto Monteiro