[R] reading data from Excel Spread sheet

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, venkata kirankumar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I tried to read data from Excel spread sheet with using
>
> read.csv(file.choose())
> and
> read.delim(file.choose())
> but its showing                    " *??.??*."
>
> and also i tried with
> read.table(file.choose())
>
> then its showing             "   *      V1
>                                        1 ??\021ࡱ*   "
>
>
> can any one suggest how to read data from Excel Spread sheet
>
> thanks & regards;
>
> kiran
>
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