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

[Liaw, Andy]

From: 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?

See http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/R4Calc.
Looks hot out of the oven.  I happened to see it when browsing through
the list of Ooo extensions while waiting for Ooo 2.3.1 to download last
night.

Andy

 
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