[R] how can I read a non-standard XLS file

[Gabor Grothendieck]

It appears you are using read.xls in gdata.  In that case be sure you
are using the latest version of gdata on CRAN since there was a
problem with one older version.   There is more info on read.xls in
gdata here and also listed there are alternatives you can try:
http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:12 AM,  <mauede at alice.it> wrote:
> I have attached a file downloaded from database mirWalk.
> Apparently it is in XLS format (this is the extension of the downloaded file).
> However, I cannot open it with OpenOffife spreadsheet program and Excel itself
> cannot separate the columns as it does when a true XLS file is loaded.
>
> I tried to read the attached downloaded file through R function "read.xls"
> and got the following message
>
>> read.xls("Prostatic_Neoplasm-miRNAs.Disease-GenesTargets.xls")
> Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method,  :
>  Unable to read translated csv file '/tmp/RtmpPIe3vo/file15d9580e.csv'.
> Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument
>
> I have tried reading the file through "read.table" which has now been hanging for
> more than 15 minutes.
>
> Please, advice.
> Thank you in advance.
> Maura
>
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