[R] Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files

[Ajay Shah]

> 1: Why not try the XLSReadWrite package that can do it natively without
> using Perl to convert to CSV first?

I looked at the package (it's
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html) but
it's windows only. So no joy yet.

> 2: There seems to be an Ooo extension that sounds similar to R-Excel
> (connecting R to Calc).  Not sure if that helps you any though.

I wasn't able to locate this. Could you please describe this further?

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