[R] a simple question of importing data

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

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> i just want to read data from Excel and i copied it and 
> pasted into a txt
> file.
> then i want to use "read.table" to read it. but however i 
> tried, it doesn't
> work.
> can someone help me?
> data is attached.
> thanks http://www.nabble.com/file/p16851853/weekly.txt weekly.txt 
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Have you looked at the foreign package?  It should help do what you want.  Or you could use Excel to output a .csv and read that with read.table().

Hope this is helpful,

Dan