[R] export tables to Excel files

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See R wiki for discussion of various packages that interface R and Excel:

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Ivan Calandra
<ivan.calandra at uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I've just posted a similar question about Illustrator.
> This time I would like to export the results of my statistic tables and my
> dataframes into Excel files.
>
> Up to now I've used write.csv(), but I have to resave every file in .xls in
> Excel.
> I would like to know if there is a function or package to export directly
> into *.xls.
>
> I have found xlsReadWrite which would be perfect for me, if only I could
> append data to an existing file (I need to do it) and it doesn't work with
> R2.10 (of course the version I use...).
> Of course, since I would like to export .xls files, I would have to be able
> to read them too, which means that the package WriteXLS wouldn't be enough.
> And in any case, appending data is not possible.
> The package xlsx is not what I need since I still use Excel 2003.
>
> Are there other packages that would correspond to my needs? There might also
> be a better, completely different, approach. I'm open to all suggestions of
> course!
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
> Ivan
>
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