[R] "easiest" way to write an R dataframe to excel?

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 21:56:23 CEST 2010


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Eva Nordstrom <eva.nordstrom at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am using R 2.11.1 in a Microsoft Windows 7 environment.
>
> I tried using WriteXLS, but get the message " In system(cmd) : perl not found"
>
> What is the "easiest" way to write an R dataframe to Excel?  (I am familiar with
> WriteXLS, but I do not have PERL installed, and if not needed, do not wish to
> install it.)
>
For easy ways, check RExcel and, perhaps, exporting a df to CSV via
Rcmdr menus (Data > Active data set > Export).
Liviu


> I am also familiar with write.table, but if possible, wish to create an excel
> file form within R.
>
> I'm unsure if this is possible, or perhaps i should just go ahead and install
> PERL...?
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