[R] downloading Excel files

[Erin Hodgess]

Thanks J!

I was thinking about the url, download.file functions too

Just wanted to make sure that there wasn't something special for Excel.

Thanks,
Erin


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, J Toll <jctoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear R People:
>>
>> I have been using xlsReadWrite to read Excel files and am very pleased
>> with it.  Thank you xlsReadWrite People!
>>
>> My question is:  is there a function, similar to get.hist.quote, to
>> download Excel files from the web, please?
>
> If you just need to download then you could try download.file() from utils.
>
> Otherwise read.xls from gdata might work for you. It supports
> "http://", "https://", and "ftp://" URLS.
>
> HTH
>
> James
>
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Erin



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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
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