[R] read a xls file

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Ian Jenkinson
<ian.jenkinson at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> I saw this about RODBC, but it seemed a complicated way of doing things, and
> in any case it seems that to run RODBC you need Excel 2004 or higher, which
> I would need to buy.
> One beautiful thing about R and OOo is that they are excellent and they cost
> nothing, so you don't have to buy, borrow or steal them.

read.xls in gdata does not require Excel and reads xls files directly
on all R platforms.