[R] ReadWrite.xls problem

[peter dalgaard]

On Dec 8, 2010, at 15:52 , tkdweber wrote:

> 
> Dear community,
> 
> I have now taken my R-file from lectures and intend to use it at home, but
> have a problem 
> reading the Data from the file. I have installed and loaded the Package
> xlsReadWrite so far.

xlsReadWrite is a contributed package with a complicated installation procedure. It has a maintainer and a website. Offhand I would guess that you haven't downloaded the proprietary DLL that goes with it, and maybe that the placeholder DLL has not been updated when the number of arguments was changed.

Is there any good reason not to just use the save/load mechanism?


> I have also "Changed directory".
> 
> This is what I have entered
> daten=read.xls("Daten A2")
> 
> This is my Error-Message in its German original:
> Fehler in .Call("ReadXls", file, colNames, sheet, type, from, rowNames,  : 
>  Falsche Anzahl von Argumenten (11), erwarte 10 für ReadXls
> 
> This is my Error-Message in its english translation:
> Error in .Call("ReadXls", file, colNames, sheet, type, from, rowNames,  : 
>  Wrong Number of Arguments (11), expect 10 for ReadXls
> 
> Please help me in solving this problem. Without being able to read data, the
> programme renders pointless for me :-(
> 
> Chers,
> Toby
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