[R] xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu

[Rolf Turner]

On 4/03/2009, at 2:38 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the
> package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows
> specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library  
> which is
> available for Windows only) to natively read and write Excel files.
> Thus, there is no package version available for Linux, or OSX for that
> matter.
>
> If you need to read Excel files under Linux, you could look at the
> read.xls() function in the 'gdata' CRAN package. This package requires
> that Perl be installed, as it calls a Perl routine (xls2csv) for
> converting the Excel file to a CSV file, which can then be read  
> into R.
>
> If you need to write Excel files under Linux, you can use a Perl  
> routine
> that I had posted back in 2007:
>
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-July/135968.html
>
> and have updated since then to handle Unicode issues. I am attaching a
> 2k text file here with the updated routine.

For those needing to write *.xls files as well as read them, the  
write.xls
function in the package dataframes2xls might be useful.  I have no  
actual
experience in using it, but.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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