[R] howto import .xls and .ods

[Gabor Grothendieck]

read.xls in the gdata package can read xls files.  It uses a perl
program and does not require Windows.  There is also the
related xls2csv in the same package.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to import data from .ods and .xls files in R on a linux system.
> Seems it was a faq in the past, but i found only solutions for Windows.
>
> Is there a handy solution for linux? The best would be something like
>
> mytab <-read.ods(...)
>
> Any hints? Thanks a lot for reading so far,
>
> --
> Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>